Unable to parse Oracle timestamp in C#

Question

I have timestamp of Oracle:

string timestamp = \"23-JUN-14 09.39.04.000000000 AM\";

I am not able to parse it into system date time object. I u

Answer 1

.NET DateTime structure has a precision of tick - 100 nanoseconds - 0.0000001 of second - 7 decimal positions after the point.

Oracle TimeStamp has a precision of up to nanosecond - 0.000000001 - 9 decimal positions after the point.

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That is why standard DateTime cannot store all possible oracle TimeStamps. And its parsing function simply fail on more precise string representations of TimeStamp.

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So, what could be tried:

• Format your TimeStamps in query to some format parseable by DataTime(with loss of precision if necessary) - http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements004.htm
• Or create your own more precise CustomTimeStamp .Net structure and parse to it manually