On 5/31/2013 6:01 PM, Gavin Flower wrote:
>> SQL's BIT type is big endian, a hangover from its IBM mainframe
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> I don't think it has anything to do with byte sex (I know of 3 ways to
> store integers in memory, and I suspect there are more !).
I was thinking of bit sex, not byte.
IBM numbers bits such that bit 0 is the most significant bit of a word.
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