title: It's better to use BIT or BOOLEAN fro YES/NOT values in MySQL?
body: <p>1) In my table I have a column that set privileges of the users.</p>
  
  <p>I want have a flag 1/0 (yes/not,true/false and so on..) for my privileges (for example: if the user is admin or mod...).</p>
  
  <p>I searched a lot, I'm still confused about the differences about boolean and bit in terms of resources requests to the DBMS. Which is better?</p>
  
  <p>I also found a lot of question of pasted years, so I'd like to have a fresh answer, in case that something it's changed/improved.</p>
  
  <p>2) Another question...</p>
  
  <p>I tryied to use both of these types and I saw that with boolean, it's easy to check if the value is true or false, but I haven't figured out how to see the value of a variable BIT.
  I'm my database coloumn I put values 1 or 0, but with a echo of the bit variable, nothing is shown.</p>
  
  <p>So, how can I see the value of a bit (I need to use only 1 or 0).</p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advice!</p>