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

TinyInt is my preference. Then, when doing aggregated counts against the field, you don't have to cast it. Also, some front-end languages interpret a Bit differently than others, and using a TinyInt makes validation checks universal for any front-end language.