Make DbDataReader start reading again from the beginning of the result set

Question

How to make dr.Read(); start reading again from the beginning if a condition is satisfied?

Something like:

SqlDataReader dr = command.Ex         


        

Answer 1

You can't.

The *DataReader classes are forward-only iterators.

Instead, you can store the results in a List<T> (or a DataTable)

Answer 2

The only way to restart it is to grab a new reader with ExecuteReader().

Answer 3

You can do that by first closing the datareader using dr.close(); then initializing it again.

If(condition)
{
    dr.close();
    dr=command.ExecuteReader();
}

Where command is the MySqlCommand object.