Explain the difference between BOOL, TINYINT and BIT.

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Explain the difference between BOOL, TINYINT and BIT.

Prior to MySQL 5.0.3: those are all synonyms. After MySQL 5.0.3: BIT data type can store 8 bytes of data and should be used for binary data.

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