Re: Inflate a boolean

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From: Tony Bowden
Subject: Re: Inflate a boolean
Date: 09:31 on 21 Feb 2005

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 01:20:20AM +0100, Johan Lindstrom wrote:
> The boolean example is a bit minimal. But I wouldn't store "YES" or "NO" in 
> a varchar field.

I don't believe anyone suggested this.

As the OP said he was using MySQL, I suggested an ENUM column. That way
you get to store the value you like working with, but internally MySQL
stores it internally as a single byte.

Tony

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Inflate a boolean
adtim 09:08 on 20 Feb 2005

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Ofer Nave 09:22 on 20 Feb 2005

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Tony Bowden 09:44 on 20 Feb 2005

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a.d.tim 10:35 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Tony Bowden 11:15 on 20 Feb 2005

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a.d.tim 12:37 on 20 Feb 2005

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Ofer Nave 21:40 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Tony Bowden 22:07 on 20 Feb 2005

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Ofer Nave 22:24 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Johan Lindstrom 22:47 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Tony Bowden 23:35 on 20 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Johan Lindstrom 00:20 on 21 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
Tony Bowden 09:31 on 21 Feb 2005

Re: Inflate a boolean
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