"Dave Cullen" wrote:

> I have an Oracle table with very large numerical data values and I can't get
> my VB program to display them with full precision. I'm using standard .NET
> connectivity with OleDbConnection, OleDbDataAdapter and a Dataset.
>
> If I preview the data in the OleDbDataAdapter the values get rounded off and
> converted to scientific notation. E.g. 1800000000000002501 gets turned into
> 1.8000000000000026E+18. The same thing happens when I actually fill the
> dataset in my code.
>
> How do I retrieve the full value without scientific notation?
>
> Thanks
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