Class or Method to Return OracleDataReader

Question

I'm using a neat little method which I can call from anywhere to do an ExcuteScalar and return the value using an Oracle database table as the source. So now I'd like to do a similar thing but instead of returning a single value I'd like to return the
entire Reader.Read() object. 

Answer 1

Yes, please excuse my terminology here. I'd like to call a method to do the queries rather than build a bunch of them throughout the class. So here's a simple one I came up with to handle just getting a single value from the tables:
public static object oraScalar(string strSqlCommand)
using (OracleConnection conn = new OracleConnection(vsOracleConnStr))
conn.Open();
using (OracleCommand oraCmd = new OracleCommand(strSqlCommand, conn))
return oraCmd.ExecuteScalar();
And so far this works great but it only returns a single value. Now to come up with one which will return the entire database if necessary, or at the minimum about 1000-2000 records. Once I have the dataset I will filter what's needed from it. I take it
would be something like darnold924 offered and just return the contents of the Reader object. I found something in that link which I can modify for this. Thanks everyone.