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

Are we allowed to connect to the server and know which oracle binary file is running or set $PATH the way it would be after . oraenv is run?  

Then, for example,  

strings `which oracle` | grep Release | grep 'Oracle Database' | grep -v %  

will report a string like: Oracle Database 11g Release 11.1.0.0.0 - Production

I think this works pretty far back, but I haven't tested it except on 11g today.  

Of course this probably requires more horsepower than connecting and selecting from v$instance, but maybe you're not concerned about the horsepower.

Just be sure you don't look at any of those strings you might see without a tight grep filter or you might be "reverse engineering the product."  

I would never look at the strings in the Oracle binary, of course, and I just guessed that 'Oracle Database' and Release would scope it down for you. (And I figured you didn't want the one with the format string, just the literal text one..)  

Regards,  

mwf  

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jared Still
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:53 PM To: fuadar_at_yahoo.com
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: 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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