Return Boolean Value on SQL Select Statement

Question

How to return a boolean value on SQL Select Statement?

I tried this code:

SELECT CAST(1 AS BIT) AS Expr1
FROM [User]
WHERE (UserID = 20070022)
         


        

Answer 1

I do it like this:

SELECT 1 FROM [dbo].[User] WHERE UserID = 20070022

Seeing as a boolean can never be null (at least in .NET), it should default to false or you can set it to that yourself if it's defaulting true. However 1 = true, so null = false, and no extra syntax.

Note: I use Dapper as my micro orm, I'd imagine ADO should work the same.