Good thought, thanks. I actually had tried that earlier with similar failure as trying to cast to int. However, based on your suggestion, I did find something that works. The reason that it didn't work for me before (the commented line below) was that "inline" casting apparently doesn't allow access to the methods of the casted type (I'm just guessing here, but Intellisense wouldn't pop up the list of Decimal members and at runtime I was told that CompareTo was not a member of the object).

//if ((decimal)drQuery["SalesMin"].CompareTo( (decimal)0 ) > 0)
decimal SalesMin = (decimal)drQuery["SalesMin"];
if (SalesMin.CompareTo( (decimal)0 ) > 0)

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.
Kelly

>From your original post, you said the data column was decimal, so I assume you want to cast it to decimal, not int. I bet that will work just fine.
>
>~~Bonnie