Blobs in a DataTable

19 Oct 2006 6:58 PM

Rex the Strange

Does anyone know, offhand, how to distinguish between a "blob" type
field and a "long raw" type field from an Oracle database? The
DataTable reports them both as being type Byte[] (Byte Array).

tia,

rts

21 Oct 2006 7:33 AM

Miha Markic [MVP C#]

Without additional info you can't since both Oracle data types are mapped
into byte[] as you see.
But why would you need? This kind of mapping usually belongs to a data
adapter.

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"Rex the Strange" <roger.m***@widgetinc.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know, offhand, how to distinguish between a "blob" type
> field and a "long raw" type field from an Oracle database? The
> DataTable reports them both as being type Byte[] (Byte Array).
>
> tia,
>
> rts
>