This is why I don't always trust BOL to give me a straightforward and direct answer.

For example, under the topic "Operator Precedence (Transact-SQL)" it states "Operators have the...

I find it puzzling to have the reviewdate be the clustered index. This seems like an unlikely column for a query. Wouldn't it make more sense to have...

The first line in the second example isn't legal without an explicit conversion or cast.

I'm pretty sure Raj meant to write...

string myID = "1001";

instead of...

int myID = "1001"; ...