Quaint Query for Quick Bit Flip

Written by Jamie McBurney
Posted on Oct 3, 2012 at 10:57 AM

How's this for the a super simple way to flip a bit field from 1 to 0 and back:

UPDATE myTable
SET myBitField = coalesce(myBitField,0) ^ 1
WHERE myPrimaryKey = 'uniqueIDHere'

I'm in love.

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