What is the difference between BIT and TINYINT in MySQL?

Question

In which cases would you use which? Is there much of a difference? Which I typically used by persistence engines to store booleans?

Answer 1

From my experience I'm telling you that BIT has problems on linux OS types(Ubuntu for ex). I developped my db on windows and after I deployed everything on linux, I had problems with queries that inserted or selected from tables that had BIT DATA TYPE.

Bit is not safe for now. I changed to tinyint(1) and worked perfectly. I mean that you only need a value to diferentiate if it's 1 or 0 and tinyint(1) it's ok for that