Yes, thanks. It turns out that once you cast it to a temporary Decimal type, the regular old > operator works (as did the CompareTo() call, but this is shorter/clearer).

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

I'm somewhat surprised that casting and comparing in one step didn't work, but the above is prettier than all of the previous versions I had working. Thanks.

>Can you assign the value to a variable of type decimal, and then compare the variable with the ">" ? Ugly, but might work since .NET will do some of the casting for you.