> It is also a bad idea to use proprietary BIT data types to fake
> assembly language style programming. SQL is a predicate language;
> that is, we discover a fact with a predicate rather than set a flag.

Unless we're actually storing a Yes/No, True/False, or some other two-
valued data; as would seem to be indicated by the "INDICATOR" column
name.

INDICATOR, as an aside, is not a reserved word in SQL Server.

>> Unless we're actually storing a Yes/No, True/False, or some other two-valued data; as would seem to be indicated by the "INDICATOR" column name. <<

I have no trouble with a two-valued domain; I even gave an example of
the Rh factor in blood typing. You just do not see them very often in
the real world.

>> INDICATOR, as an aside, is not a reserved word in SQL Server. <<

But it is for embedded SQL in the X3J languages adn SQL Server has an
embedding even if MS does not advertise it. There is more to the
world of RDBMS than just .NET programming.