I would just use 8 discrete fields, indexed, and "waste" those 7 extra bytes.
-Mark
Mike Boone wrote:
Hi all,
I was hoping to use a TINYINT to store 8 distinct boolean values. That works fine, but is there any way to optimize searching on a specific bit? I didn't see a way for MySQL to create an index on a specific bit of the TINYINT. Am I better off "wasting" space by putting each boolean value in its own TINYINT?
Thanks for the advice! Mike Boone http://boonedocks.net/mike
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