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I noticed while watching the Athletics World Championships, that the 5000m runner Ben True always had his name shown in the results as:

SMITH John

True Ben

JONES Fred

BLOGGS Bill

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So it probably means that a "dynamically" typed system is used. Is there a database where if you INSERT the string 'TRUE' you get an actual boolean stored? IIRC MySQL used to not actually coerce types into the type the column is declared as.

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