Oracle NUMBER column retreived as System.Double instead of System.Decimal

We've been using the OleDb Managed Provider for some time now, and all oracle NUMBER datatypes have always come back from the db as System.Decimal.
we recently installed a new database, and now NUMBER comes back as System.Double. The table create scripts are the same for the new db. The client is not the issue as I can point the same web server at the old db and it works fine.
I've been unable to find any documentation on the subject.

I have the same problem also. I'm using VC++6.0 and ADO 2.71 to perform queries with an Oracle Client 9.2.0.1. The same query on same table but on different Server version returns different results. With the production server, which is an 8.1.7.4 server, a NUMBER column returns a LONG value, while on the Test server, which is a 9.2.0.5.0 server, the same column returns a DOUBLE value. The problem is that using ADO I don't check data type/size when getting values, but I aspect a LONG value because a created the column with NUMBER specification. Could this be a different default from previous server version when creating the NUMBER column without any SCALE and PRECISION attributes?

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