Return Boolean Value on SQL Select Statement

What you have there will return no row at all if the user doesn't exist. Here's what you need:

SELECT CASE WHEN EXISTS (
    SELECT *
    FROM [User]
    WHERE UserID = 20070022
)
THEN CAST(1 AS BIT)
ELSE CAST(0 AS BIT) END

Possibly something along these lines:

SELECT CAST(CASE WHEN COUNT(*) > 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS BIT)
FROM dummy WHERE id = 1;

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!3/5e555/1

Given that commonly 1 = true and 0 = false, all you need to do is count the number of rows, and cast to a boolean.

Hence, your posted code only needs a COUNT() function added:

SELECT CAST(COUNT(1) AS BIT) AS Expr1
FROM [User]
WHERE (UserID = 20070022)

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