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

Here's yet another way:

grep -iE 'RDBMS version number|RDBMS release number' $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbmsutil.sql
  version constant pls_integer := 9; -- RDBMS version number   release constant pls_integer := 2; -- RDBMS release number

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Fuad Arshad <fuadar_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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