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Lukas Eder commented on DERBY-5451:
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Thanks for the explanation. I didn't realize the SQL standard was so 
restrictive.
With jOOQ (http://www.jooq.org), I am currently running integration tests 
against any of these 12 RDBMS: 

- DB2
- Derby
- H2
- HSQLDB
- Ingres
- MySQL
- Oracle
- Postgres
- SQLite
- SQL Server
- Sybase ASE
- Sybase SQL Anywhere

Casting numeric types to boolean works in all RDBMS, except Derby and HSQLDB 
(and Oracle, which doesn't have a boolean SQL type). So a slight deviation from 
the standard might be worth thinking about.
                
> Allow for casting numeric types to BOOLEAN
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DERBY-5451
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5451
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 10.8.1.2
>            Reporter: Lukas Eder
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: cast, conversion, sql, syntax, type, typesystem
>
> According to the casting matrix:
> http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.8/ref/rrefsqlj33562.html
> it is currently not possible to write CAST(1 as BOOLEAN). At the same time, 
> casting CHAR and VARCHAR as BOOLEAN is possible, e.g. CAST('1' as BOOLEAN), 
> or CAST(CAST(1 as CHAR(1)) as BOOLEAN). This was recently implemented:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4658

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