C#: Oracle Data Type Equivalence with OracleDbType

Question

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Situation:

I am creating an app in C# that uses Oracle.DataAccess.Client (11g) to do certain operations on a Oracle database with stored procedures. I am awa

Answer 1

Check APC's links out, they are what you are looking for : the mapping is quite straightforward according to the name of the enumeration.

But as you began to notice, there is something tricky about integers. Here is my mapping :

• Int16 : NUMBER(5).
• Int32 : NUMBER(10).
• Int64 : NUMBER(19).

The thing is that if you call GetInt64 on a NUMBER(38) column, you will get an exception even if the value is in the correct range...