At the risk of exposing how much I might not know, why all the alter statements changing fields from tinyint to int, as well as NOT NULL? I would assume that the changing of populated columns to be NOT NULL helps performance, (and I'll be happy to read why if someone could point me to where to search for that hint) but why not define the int fields as int at table create?

Other than that, I have every plan to make use of this - kind of a Swiss Army Knife utlity table. Thanks in advance for the slightly off topic answer to my question.

Bob