Handling ExecuteScalar() when no results are returned

Question

I am using the following SQL query and the ExecuteScalar() method to fetch data from an Oracle database:

sql = \"select username from usermst wh         


        

Answer 1

I had this issue when the user connecting to the database had CONNECT permissions, but no permissions to read from the database. In my case, I could not even do something like this:

object userNameObj = command.ExecuteScalar()

Putting this in a try/catch (which you should probably be doing anyway) was the only way I could see to handle the insufficient permission issue.