Congratulations.

I want to say thanks to you guys for making this resource available. Its been part of my daily routine for a couple of years now and has a been...

non expert here - but I would drop and recreate the database

Ooops - my previous post is a question not a statement

So when you set an int = 0 SQL Server treats it as an empty string when doing int-string...

So when you set an int = 0 SQL Server treats it as an empty string when doing int-string comparison