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I have a table NOTICIA and in it I have a column ATIVO
The news may be active or not, if it is BOOLEAN (0 or 1) if ENUM (ACTIVE OR NON-ACTIVE) .
Which one would be better to use, BOOLEAN or ENUM ?
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Since Mysql 5.0.3 you have the type BIT(quantidade de bits) which may be used in such cases, if specified BIT(1).
Boolean is just one alias for TINYINT(1).
Enum as its name already says, it is for enumerations, ie a list of values "named", internally is stored as number, turns out to be no better than and the Boolean internally.
Some links that might interest you about these types:
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I suggest never using BOOLEAN in tables, because it is routine to appear a posteriori requirements that require more than two states. Use ENUM or even a simple INT.
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In my opinion, it is active or not, clearly it is boolean. Now, if there are more than two states, e.g., status: published, draft, excluded, pending, etc.
– Woss
Possible duplicate of BIT(1) versus TINYINT(1) for boolean values
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