Bug with GetFloat?

I have field defined as float (price).

when I do the following command I get invalid cast.

reader.GetFloat(reader.GetOrdinal("price"));

I have to pull it with GetDouble.

reader.GetDouble (reader.getOrdinal("price"));

which works.

since it's defined as a float would that not make this an error.. or am I missing something?

GetFloat and GetDouble don't do any conversions. GetFloat expects a single precision and GetDouble a double precision value. Since the SQL Float is double precision you'll get an casting error with GetFloat. You could use GetFloat with a real field.

See "SQL Server Data Types and Their .NET Framework Equivalents" in books online for more info.

|||
When dealing with currency, why not create price as a sql type 'money'?

reader.GetDecimal (reader.getOrdinal("price")) would then work for you without throwing any casting exceptions.