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Asked: 2026-05-12T18:08:12+00:00

Situation: I am creating an app in C# that uses Oracle.DataAccess.Client (11g) to do

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Situation:

I am creating an app in C# that uses Oracle.DataAccess.Client (11g) to do certain operations on a Oracle database with stored procedures. I am aware that there is a certain enum (OracleDbType) that contains the Oracle data types, but I am not sure which one to use for certain types.

Questions:

  • What is the equivalent Oracle PL/SQL data
    type     for each enumerated type in the
    OracleDbType enumeration?

  • There are three types of integer
    (Int16, Int32, Int64) in the OracleDbType… how to know
    which one to use or are they all
    suppose to work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The values of the OracleDbType Enumeration are defined in the documentation. Read the ODP for .NET Developer’s Guide.

    With regards to choosing between Int16, Int32 and Int64, they are all supposed to work. Choose the one which matches the expected size of your .Net variable: Int16 for values between -32768 and 32767, Int32 for values between -2147483648 and 2147483647, and Int64 for anything larger. There appear to be some funnies relating to converting Ints and PL/SQL data types. Check this blog post by Mark Williams.

    Coda

    Greetings from 2021. This post has just been upvoted, so presumably Seekers are still finding it and finding it useful. But please note that it is more than ten years old. Consequently the advice it offers may not be relevant for more recent versions of ODP, particularly regarding unusual behaviour. Please don’t follow recommendations without verifying them for yourself. (This is general advice which holds for anything you read on the Internet, and not just about software development!)

    Here is the pertinent link for Oracle 21c ODP documentation.

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