> Randall, I am with you on that one.
>
> I consider it ridiculous that a toddler RDBMS like dBASE had a LOGICAL
> datatype but all the RDBMS systems for adults (like Oracle and, yes,
> Firebird/InterBase) don't have a native BOOLEAN type.
>
> On the other side, IDEs for adults (like Delphi) don't have datatypes
> like NUMBER or DECIMAL to exactly match what comes from the database

BCD?

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