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title bit (Transact-SQL)
description bit (Transact-SQL)
author MikeRayMSFT
ms.author mikeray
ms.date 07/23/2017
ms.service sql
ms.subservice t-sql
ms.topic reference
f1_keywords
bit_TSQL
bit
helpviewer_keywords
bit data type
dev_langs
TSQL
monikerRange >=aps-pdw-2016||=azuresqldb-current||=azure-sqldw-latest||>=sql-server-2016||>=sql-server-linux-2017||=azuresqldb-mi-current||=fabric

bit (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDE sql-asdb-asdbmi-asa-pdw-fabricse-fabricdw]

An integer data type that can take a value of 1, 0, or NULL.

Remarks

The [!INCLUDEssDEnoversion] optimizes storage of bit columns. If there are 8 or fewer bit columns in a table, the columns are stored as 1 byte. If there are from 9 up to 16 bit columns, the columns are stored as 2 bytes, and so on.

The string values TRUE and FALSE can be converted to bit values: TRUE is converted to 1 and FALSE is converted to 0.

Converting to bit promotes any nonzero value to 1.

See also

ALTER TABLE (Transact-SQL)
CAST and CONVERT (Transact-SQL)
CREATE TABLE (Transact-SQL)
Data Type Conversion (Database Engine)
Data Types (Transact-SQL)
DECLARE @local_variable (Transact-SQL)
SET @local_variable (Transact-SQL)
sys.types (Transact-SQL)