Solution to Overflow Error 6 or Division by Zero

A lot of you may encounter the error “overflow error 6” during code execution. This problem can occur if you use an integer data type in your variable. Int or Integer data type can handle only up to 32768 value. Meaning if you exceed on this limit an overflow error 6 will be thrown.

Another problem with this is a division by zero (0). But in majority the division by zero error has an error number 11 and not 6. This is cause by a divisor or denominator equal to zero (0).

A good practice is to use Long data type in your source code to avoid this error. But if you are sure that the value in that variable will not exceed the maximum limit, an Integer data type is a good choose.