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Converting Bits to Yes/No Values

Written by Eric Smith, Northstar Computer Systems LLC

In an application I have been building, I have many cases in which I need to display the value of bit fields in SQL Server to the user. Instead of showing zeroes and ones or Trues and Falses, I created a quick little function that converts the values to Yes and No.
Function ConvertBitToYN(blnInput)
   If blnInput Then
      ConvertBitToYN = "Yes"
   Else
      ConvertBitToYN = "No"
   End If
End Function
It's simple code, but it's the simple functions that make programming quicker and less bug-prone.

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Publication Date: 2/1/2000