This method returns the byte array value of the specified VECTOR column.

Declaration

// C#
public override byte[] GetByteArray(string name);

Parameters

• name

  The specified column name

Return Value

The byte array value of the column. A sparse vector type column will return the array value as a dense vector.

Exceptions

InvalidOperationException - The connection is closed, the reader is closed, Read() has not been called, or all rows have been read.

IndexOutOfRangeException - The column index is invalid.

InvalidCastException - The accessor method is invalid for this column type or the column value is NULL.

Remarks

While this accessor can retrieve data from columns of any numeric format, it is the only accessor for retrieving byte[] for BINARY format columns.

IsDBNull should be called to check for NULL values before calling this method.