I agree that this doesn't work. I was pretty sure it wasn't going to do an implicit conversion. Then I cut and pasted it into a query and executed it. And I was proven right. It failed. No results were returned. An error was returned. It things like this that makes me not try to read or follow information from sites like this one. Is there a setting in MSSQL that allows implicit conversion? I hope not. My databases need to maintain data integrity, and if implicit conversions are happening I can't trust my databases.