Re: why databses don't support 'boolean' type?

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 13 Oct 2006 07:45:01 -0700
Message-ID: <1160750695.877890.232290@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

fireball wrote:
> is there any reason not to supprt 'boolean' type in database(s)? just
> curious..

Each vendor of database software has created and implemented the column types that made sense to them.

Many of us would like to see a boolean native column in oracle and I am sure that it has been submitted as a request.

It's not hard to emulate in oracle.

Tom Kyte at http://asktom.oracle.com covers this subject well for oracle considerations. Search for boolean Received on Fri Oct 13 2006 - 09:45:01 CDT