value NOTHING can appear in the Object() array filled by the OleDBDataReader ?

pamela fluente wrote:
>
> I am using an OledbDataReader to read each record into an array of
> objects, as usual.
>
> My question is:
> is it ever possible that one of the values contained in the array be
> Nothing.
> I have never seen it happen and I would believe it is impossible.
> Can anyone confirm that ? And in case what is the reason ?
>
> -P
It's my understanding that it can't happen, NULL values are always
specified as DBNull.Value.
In general, use the native ADO.NET providers instead of oledb to be
sure.
FB
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On 12 Lug, 10:22, "Frans Bouma [C# MVP]"
<perseus.usenetNOS...@.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> It's my understanding that it can't happen, NULL values are always
> specified as DBNull.Value.
> In general, use the native ADO.NET providers instead of oledb to be
> sure.
> FB
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Thanks Frans,
I wanted to make sure that programmatically I only need to check for
dbNull values.
So far I have never neen a Nothing value. But perhaps did not try
hard enough.
I was wondering if perhaps it is actually impossible for some
technical reason (OleDB implementation).
I do have seen however an "Object" type (which is somehow curious).
So I was wondering whether it could also
spit a Nothing value.
BTW I am considering OleDb (and only that) because I am doing a
cross work among many different platforms.
-P