diff --git a/sql.d/schema/create_schema_tables.sql b/sql.d/schema/create_schema_tables.sql
index eb1ac8e1..9599c871 100644
--- a/sql.d/schema/create_schema_tables.sql
+++ b/sql.d/schema/create_schema_tables.sql
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ CREATE TABLE statistics (
 	num_metapackages integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
 	num_problems integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
 	num_maintainers integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
-	num_urls_checked integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+	num_urls_checked bigint NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
 	num_reports_total integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
 	num_reports_open integer NOT NULL DEFAULT 0
 );