它在sql关系模型中也很方便，假设你有以下表:BlogEntry, BlogCategory

传统上，你可以使用BlogEntryCategory表在它们之间创建一个n-n关系 或者当没有那么多的BlogCategory记录时，你可以在BlogEntry中使用一个值来链接到多个BlogCategory记录，就像你会用标记的枚举做的那样， 在大多数RDBMS中，也有一个非常快速的操作符来选择'标记'列…

我经常使用位操作将选项的组合存储在一个整数中。

int options = 0;

其中OPTION1可以定义为1,OPTION2定义为2,OPTION3定义为4,OPTION4定义为8,OPTION5定义为16，…

void addOption(int option)将使用|操作符向options中添加一个选项。

boolean hasOption(int option)将使用&操作符来测试选项中的选项。

Bit fields (flags) They're the most efficient way of representing something whose state is defined by several "yes or no" properties. ACLs are a good example; if you have let's say 4 discrete permissions (read, write, execute, change policy), it's better to store this in 1 byte rather than waste 4. These can be mapped to enumeration types in many languages for added convenience. Communication over ports/sockets Always involves checksums, parity, stop bits, flow control algorithms, and so on, which usually depend on the logic values of individual bytes as opposed to numeric values, since the medium may only be capable of transmitting one bit at a time. Compression, Encryption Both of these are heavily dependent on bitwise algorithms. Look at the deflate algorithm for an example - everything is in bits, not bytes. Finite State Machines I'm speaking primarily of the kind embedded in some piece of hardware, although they can be found in software too. These are combinatorial in nature - they might literally be getting "compiled" down to a bunch of logic gates, so they have to be expressed as AND, OR, NOT, etc. Graphics There's hardly enough space here to get into every area where these operators are used in graphics programming. XOR (or ^) is particularly interesting here because applying the same input a second time will undo the first. Older GUIs used to rely on this for selection highlighting and other overlays, in order to eliminate the need for costly redraws. They're still useful in slow graphics protocols (i.e. remote desktop).

这些只是我最先想到的几个例子——这不是一个详尽的清单。

数据库世界中的另一个真实应用程序是MySQL，它的数据类型是SET。

位操作符由DBMS存储SET数据类型。设置可以节省空间。

Element    SET Value    Decimal Value
Travel      00000001    1
Sports      00000010    2
Dancing    00000100    4
Fine Dining   00001000  8

我在为CMS实现安全模型时使用了按位操作。如果用户属于适当的组，就可以访问它的页面。一个用户可以在多个组中，因此我们需要检查用户组和页面组之间是否有交集。因此，我们为每个组分配了一个唯一的2次方标识符，例如:

Group A = 1 --> 00000001
Group B = 2 --> 00000010
Group C = 3 --> 00000100

我们将这些值一起OR，并将值(作为单个int)存储在页面中。例如，如果一个页面可以被a组和B组访问，我们存储值3(二进制是00000011)作为页面访问控制。同样，我们将or组标识符的值存储给用户，以表示用户所在的组。

因此，要检查给定用户是否可以访问给定页面，只需将这些值与运算在一起，并检查该值是否非零。这是非常快的，因为这个检查是在一条指令中实现的，没有循环，没有数据库往返。

不久前，我在维基上写了一篇小文章，展示了一个二进制的作者/读者。它在位级上工作，并展示了如何使用位操作符来打包数据。这可能是一个“现实世界”的例子，因为它在游戏中也有应用。