On 5/31/2013 6:01 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
SQL's BIT type is big endian, a hangover from its IBM mainframe heritage.I don't think it has anything to do with byte sex (I know of 3 ways to store integers in memory, and I suspect there are more !).
I was thinking of bit sex, not byte. IBM numbers bits such that bit 0 is the most significant bit of a word. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
