Would it make sense to store gender as a string in a MySQL database?

Question

Programming

Would it make sense for MySQL to store gender as a string (male/female) rather than 0 for male and 1 for female?

Answer 1

The great secret of programming architecture is that 0 for female and 1 for male.

Answer 2

No. If you really want to, then store it as ENUM('male', 'female').

Answer 3

Of course, it is advisable if you have a number of sexes significantly more than two =)))) And if there are still two, then no ...