Best Practice for Removing Zeroes from Database

Does anyone have some clever bits of code or best practices for evaluating a database and instances of zeroes? I'm working on cleaning up our rules file and am thinking the best way to start would be to write some code to look for zeroes and write them to a log file. This would at least indicate if there was even a problem with zeroes (which there may or may not be).
Any suggestions out there / utilities / code samples?
Thanks.

We accomplished this using data extracts from a subset of scenarios/years/entities/accounts to ensure that all of our potential rules could be checked to ensure they were not writting zero's. This worked pretty well for our purposes, a text editor called EmEditor allows for VB macros in it pretty easily and we could write a quick macro to check for strings ending in "; 0." You may also want to review your check box of calculated in your extract and see if the zeros are a result of calculations. A rule output could work pretty well, although it would take some defining as you would have to write it out in a sub and make sure that you capture the data of all subroutines if your zero's are rule driven or actual inputs. May want to review some if you have very small insignificant values getting written, seen items that have one value 13 places to the right of the decimal that were not really signficant.
JTF

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