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Oracle® Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide
10g Release 1 (10.1)

Part Number B10117-01
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ODP.NET Types Overview

ODP.NET types represent Oracle native types as a structure or as a class. ODP.NET type structures follow value semantics while ODP.NET type classes follow reference semantics. ODP.NET types provide safer and more efficient ways of obtaining Oracle native data in a .NET application than .NET types. For example, an OracleDecimal holds up to 38 precisions while a .NET Decimal holds only up to 28 precisions.

Table 3-2 lists all the Oracle native types supported by ODP.NET and their corresponding ODP.NET type. The third column lists the .NET Framework datatype that corresponds to the Value property of each ODP.NET Type.

Table 3-2 Oracle Native Types Supported by ODP.NET

Oracle Native Type ODP.NET Type .NET Framework Datatypes
BFILE OracleBFile class System.Byte[]
BLOB OracleBlob class System.Byte[]
CHAR OracleString structure System.String
CLOB OracleClob class System.String
DATE OracleDate structure System.DateTime
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND OracleIntervalDS structure System.TimeSpan
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH OracleIntervalYM structure System.Int64
LONG OracleString structure System.String
LONG RAW OracleBinary structure System.Byte[]
NCLOB OracleClob class System.String
NCHAR OracleString structure System.String
NUMBER OracleDecimal structure System.Decimal
NVARCHAR2 OracleString structure System.String
RAW OracleBinary structure System.Byte[]
REF CURSOR OracleRefCursor class Not Applicable
TIMESTAMP OracleTimeStamp structure System.DateTime
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE OracleTimeStampLTZ structure System.DateTime
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE OracleTimeStampTZ structure System.DateTime
UROWID OracleString structure System.String
VARCHAR2 OracleString structure System.String
XMLType OracleXmlType class System.String