Question

I have a tinyint column in the database and I wish to convert it to Int32 for an SqlDataReader.

How do i go about it?

Edit #1

I recently had to do this.

int a = dataReader.GetByte(dr.GetOrdinal("ColumnName"));

#In Addition to Answer

SQL Server Data Type Mappings

bigint           - GetInt64  
binary           - GetBytes  
int              - GetInt32  
money            - GetDecimal  
rowversion       - GetBytes  
smallint         - GetInt16  
tinyint          - GetByte  
uniqueidentifier - GetGuid   
...

For more info visit – SQL Server Data Type Mappings

Answer 1

What does it normally come back as – byte? If so, just do an unbox and then a convert:

(int)(byte) reader["column"];

or just let the conversion happen naturally:

int x = (byte) reader["column"];

or do the same with the strongly typed methods:

int x = reader.GetByte(column);

Adjust this to sbyte or short or whatever if I’m wrong about it mapping to byte. You could do the conversion at the SQL Server side, but I’d personally do it at the client side instead, and keep the SQL simpler.