RE: How do I extract "vsnnum" from oracle binaries or libraries (was Version of Oracle Database without connecting to the database.)

There was just a thread on the subject of getting the Oracle version from the OS a few days ago here on Oracle-L

I like Jared Still's solution read it from the dbms_utilities package  

grep -iE 'RDBMS version number|RDBMS release number' $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbmsutil.sql

Another solution was to pull it out via strings ver 9i and 10g: strings `which oracle` | grep -i version ver 11 : strings `which oracle` | grep -i release

There might have been other ideas but these are the ones I remember.

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Hi,

This thread was of great interest to me as I am currently working on a project to gather server and database metadata for servers and databases in our farm. One part of the project requires the ability to automatically gather data on oracle installations so I was trying to figure out how to get hold of the "vsnnum" value from oracle binaries or libraries.

I can find evidence of "vsnnum" using elfdump (Solaris 10)...

amrndhs014-ora9i $ uname -a
SunOS amrndhs014 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490 amrndhs014-ora9i $ pwd
/app/oracle/product/9.2.0.8_64
amrndhs014-ora9i $ /usr/ccs/bin/elfdump bin/oracle | grep vsnnum

   [44804] 0x000102f87748 0x000000000004 OBJT GLOB D 0 .rodata vsnnum
  [136007] 0x000102f87748 0x000000000004 OBJT GLOB D 0 .rodata vsnnum

            [44804] vsnnum
amrndhs014-ora9i $ /usr/ccs/bin/elfdump lib/libcommon9.a | grep vsnnum

     [674]  0x00155e84  (vsndef.o):vsnnum
      [18]  0x000000000000 0x000000000004  OBJT GLOB  D    0 .rodata

But I am having no luck extracting the correct (expected) value. Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing?

Thanks,
Ken.  

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Fuad Arshad 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.

oracommon(9|10|11).dll contain exported variable "_vsnnum", which is 32-bit DWORD and reflect precise Oracle 4d or 5d version. This information is used in V$VERSION view.

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