What's the difference between MySQL BOOL and BOOLEAN column data types?

Question

I\'m using MySQL version 5.1.49-1ubuntu8.1. It allows me to define columns of two different data types: BOOL and BOOLEAN. What are the differences

Answer 1

check the MySQL docs overview of numeric types:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/numeric-type-overview.html