I CAN HAS PADAWAN!

First lolcats, then philolsophers and now lolcode ... this is 2 viral 4 wurdz.

Aaaargh! Snap out of it, Solri!

Anyway, I now have a Padawan apprentice. OK, I'm not teaching her to use the Force; I'm teaching her to fiddle with the student re-registration program I wrote, but I call her "my young Padawan" and she calls me "Master", and that's good enough for me. In the process, I too am learning. For example, I've learned that the unfixable bug which I thought was a weird PHP bug is actually a weird MySQL bug. This leaves it just as unfixable but much more interesting: the database will sometimes (though not always) change the student's university ID to 2147483647 and then refuse to change it to any other number whatever I do. I think I'm about to have one of those numerical epiphanies that crop up from time to time in films and TV series (Lost being a recent example). I have also learned that I really need to write some code to move records from one table to another. And it took someone who ten minutes earlier was asking about the difference between a client and server to point that out, so maybe I should start calling her "Master".

Update: Aha, I have just found that 2147483647 is (2^31)-1, which is the largest integer that will fit in that field. The plot thickens ...
Upperdate: Solved! I CAN HAS BIGINT! (see comments)