RE: Version of Oracle Database without connecting to the database.

You can try running sqlplus from the Oracle Home (without connecting i.e. sqlplus /nolog), that will give you the version down to the patchset.

Guillermo Alan Bort
DBA / DBA Main Team

EDS, an HP company

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Fuad Arshad Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 1:45 PM
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Subject: Version of Oracle Database without connecting to the database.

Folks,
I'm trying to find a way to script finding an approximation of the version of the database without connecting to the database itself. The goal is to try to find out of the Oracle_home is a Oracle 10 home , 9 home etc .  

right now i'm doiing something like
DATAVERSION1=`echo $ORACLE_HOME | awk -F/ '{print $6}'` expecting that $6 would lead me to something like /usr/local/oracle/product/10.2

but this is not a very foolproof implementation since installs can take various forms and break this implementation.

Any ideas of how i can get the oracle version info considering that i will always know the value of $ORACLE_HOME.
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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Fri Oct 24 2008 - 11:47:07 CDT