This way I can take impossible-to-sort varchars, and sort them by the converted field instead, making the recordset prettier.<BR><BR>Right now SCNumber might look like the above, '99' implying ...

When selecting the data, I was expecting the zero values to be returned as 0.00 or 0, but they were returning as .00.<BR>So, I changed some fields to numeric (8,2), hoping that would help.

Sometimes numeric data is stored in columns that have character data types. In order to do calculations with this numeric data, you must convert the character columns to numeric. You can use ...