On 11-Jul-01 Lasse wrote:
>
> Ok, after a lot of R'ing TFM, I'm more confused than I was before... Seems
> MySQL plays pretty loose with most datatypes and stores half the numeric
> types as strings, so
>
> I want e.g. a 16 bit field where I can use the individual bits for various
> flags. How should I set the MySQL datatype and attributes?
>
SMALLINT UNSIGNED
also look at SET
> Also, are there any other caveats I should know about? (e.g. PHP's handling
> of integers)
>
32bit signed (should be ok).
> Back in the good ol' 680x0 ASM days this was so easy! :-)
M6502, 8080 , sticks & rocks for ones & zeros.
Funny, i don't feel like an old fart (yet).
Regards,
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