once again, I figured out my issue. I had an "e" after the word attach. I figured the "e" was expected because I copied the stored procedure from...

I figured it out... it's: sp_spaceused

Yeah, the stored procedure can't be modified. It looks like the solution here may be to just copy the stored procedure without the print statements into another new proc....

I had also tried converting the date to a datetime and got the same date.  Initially, I just didn't see how 5347 translated to 6/19/1915, but if your adding days from...

That's a good idea.  Thanks.  I am still curious if anyone knows why isdate returns true.