where clause bug

When specifying criteria in a where claue such as 
user_id = 'value' if a non-numeric is entered the
query returns back all rows.
user_id = user_id brings back every user_id instead of
error because user_id is a numeric field and it
shouldnt be able to accept chars.
-Kyle

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