> after lots of problematic select statements we have realised 
> that if a db column has a type of tinyint(1) and that column 
> in the mysql db has '2' stored in it, then running a cfquery 
> will only return 0 or 1
> 
> so we realise that cfquery must convert tinyint(1) columns to boolean
> 
> we couldn't believe that a the same select statement directly 
> in mysql returned a value of 2 but a cfquery returned the 
> value 1 - on the tinyint(1) column
> 
> is this right?, is this a bug? or is there a way we can turn 
> this conversion to a boolean off? or will we have to change 
> any tinyint(1) columns to smallint(1)

I don't know if this is a problem specific to MySQL or the MySQL JDBC
drivers.

You might work around this by simply casting within your SQL.

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