• Lennie (9/11/2010)


    GilaMonster (9/11/2010)


    A bit is a numeric data type that stores just two possible numeric, 0 and 1. Those are the mathematical numbers and have no special meaning.

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    I was asking what the the meaning of BIT value 1 and BIT value of 0 ? Does value 0 (zero) means YES or YES and

    Does value 1 (one) means NO or FALSE ?

    Up to you.

    Intrinsically in SQL 0 means just 0 and 1 means just 1. It's a bit column, not a boolean. You can assign true/false meanings to the values as you like. It's not MS-Access where the boolean column has such meanings (0 true and 1 false)

    Typically, if people do assign such logical meanings to the 1 and 0, 1 is true and 0 false, but it's totally up to you.

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