Disclaimer: I am a n00b.
It seems like ODBC does not support a BOOLEAN type? Is this true?
If so, what’s the standard kludgearound?
Edit: I am using ADO with Delphi on Windows to write the data, but PHP 5 to read it back.
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Disclaimer: I am a n00b.
It seems like ODBC does not support a BOOLEAN type? Is this true?
If so, what’s the standard kludgearound?
Edit: I am using ADO with Delphi on Windows to write the data, but PHP 5 to read it back.
SQL itself has traditionally not supported a boolean type, so ODBC is just reflecting this. As ODBC is intended to provide portability across databases, it is generally better to implement booleans in the database as one of the standard types, such as CHAR(1), containing either ‘Y’ or ‘N’, rather than use a vendor specific type.