Quite an interesting topic to start my day - even more when I start thinking about the toast bread itself... :w00t:

Actually, I think it's the best to use those...

So why not use something like "ISNULL(IntValue1, -1) = ISNULL(IntValue2, -1)" for every case where IntValueX has to be >-1? I guess this would be faster than calling a function.

Nice article, just followed your steps on our databases. 😀

Though for general purpose, I'm missing some short explanations on ANSI settings and as you check them in step 2) and...