Re: The BOOLEAN data type
From: Paul <paul_at_not.a.chance.ie>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 02:21:39 +0100
Message-ID: <MPG.18f2f9fb9888aaa29896af_at_news1.eircom.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 02:21:39 +0100
Message-ID: <MPG.18f2f9fb9888aaa29896af_at_news1.eircom.net>
[Quoted] > Aside from the destruction of the foundations of SQL, Booleans are
> usually, but not always, a sign of bad programming.
I'm confused here! Why is it bad?
I'm working on a project where we store people's gender - what's wrong with using a boolean for that?
> Someone is
> storing the state of the database at one point in time as a flag. It
> is a computed column and we all know better than to store redundant
> data like that.
[Quoted] How does one "compute" gender?
Paul... Received on Tue Apr 01 2003 - 03:21:39 CEST