This property specifies the offset to the Value property.

Declaration

// C#
public int Offset { get; set; }

Property Value

An int that specifies the offset.

Exceptions

ArgumentOutOfRangeException - The Offset value specified is invalid.

Remarks

Default = 0

For Array Bind and PL/SQL Associative Array Bind, Offset applies to every element in the Value property.

The Offset property is used for binary and string data types. The Offset property represents the number of bytes for binary types and the number of characters for strings. The count for strings does not include the terminating character if a null is referenced. The Offset property is used by parameters of the following types:

• OracleDbType.BFile

• OracleDbType.Blob

• OracleDbType.LongRaw

• OracleDbType.Raw

• OracleDbType.Char

• OracleDbType.Clob

• OracleDbType.NClob

• OracleDbType.NChar

• OracleDbType.NVarchar2

• OracleDbType.Varchar2