Tinyint vs Bit?

Question

I don\'t want to touch-off a religious war here, but there seem to be two schools of thoughts in how to represent boolean values in a database. Some say bit is

Answer 1

Boolean, by definition, allows only two values. Why would you need anything more than a single bit for this? if you need a three (or more) state logic, then use a bigger datatype, but I would (and do) stick with bit fields for standard boolean logic.