Setting up Field constraints

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Joseph Maxwell wrote:

Hello,
I have created a DB and TABLE but would like to constrain one field to
accept either "YES" or "NO" only. How can I set this up?

Probably something like:
Prior_Rx varchar(3) CHECK (Prior_Rx in ('Yes','No'))

Why not use a Boolean type?

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 18:51, Joseph Maxwell wrote:

Hello,
I have created a DB and TABLE but would like to constrain one field to
accept either "YES" or "NO" only. How can I set this up?
I have tried various syntactic constructs of

Prior_Rx varchar(3) NULL CHECK ('Yes', 'No'),
Prior_Rx varchar(3) NULL CHECK (VALUE 'Yes', 'No'),
Prior_Rx varchar(3) NULL CHECK ('Yes', 'No'),
Prior_Rx varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (VALUE 'Yes', 'No')),
Prior_Rx varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK ('Yes', 'No')),
Prior_Rx varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (VALUE Yes, No)),
Prior_Rx varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (Yes, No)),
Prior_Rx varchar(3) NULL CONSTRAINT (CHECK (Yes OR No)),
Prior_Rx varchar(3) NULL CHECK (Yes OR No),
Prior_Rx varchar(3) NULL CHECK ('Yes' OR 'No'),

Obviously they were all wrong, could someone advise?
Thanks

-- Joe --
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PS:
Just learned that the datatype should be 'bool' in this case

haven't tested it yet

But had I wanted to restrict it to say either mike or john, or even one
of a list say, 'tea', 'coffee', 'chocolate' or 'espresso', how should
that be constructed?

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