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> For SQLite the integer can be up to 8 bytes and will casting as "INTEGER" solve the problem without overflow?

You can ask the foremost expert yourself: sqlite. If it behaves that way today you can be 99.99% certain it will behave that way in 10 years (the project places tremendous value on backwards compatibility).

```
sqlite> select cast(4011110000001 as integer);
4011110000001
sqlite> select cast(401111000000100 as integer);
401111000000100
sqlite> select cast(4011110000001000 as integer);
4011110000001000
sqlite> select cast(40111100000010000 as integer);
40111100000010000
sqlite> select cast(401111000000100000 as integer);
401111000000100000
sqlite> select cast(4011110000001000000 as integer);
4011110000001000000
sqlite> select cast(40111100000010000000 as integer);
9223372036854775807
```