I need to read a value from an Oracle database and the field has been declared as Number(38). How can I do this in C# since the Decimal type isn’t big enough?
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I need to read a value from an Oracle database and the field has been declared as Number(38). How can I do this in C# since the Decimal type isn’t big enough?
You could call
GetString(ordinal)on the data reader, and feed the result toSystem.Numerics.BigInteger.TryParse().Or perhaps you could leave the value in the
OracleDecimaldatatype, like you received it from ODP.NET.OracleDecimalhas functions for almost everything, including math:Mulitply,Round,Exp, and so on.