iirc, this is not a cfquery doing, but rather the mysql jdbc driver's. there is some setting for the connector-j and/or in mysql server config file that changes this behaviour, but you will have to look it up in the mysql reference manual - i do not remember the details of this setting...
Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ Richard White wrote: > hi, > > 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) > > thanks > > richard > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306614 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
