RE: How can I identify the database

From: Channa, Santhosh <Santhosh.Channa_at_McKesson.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:11:26 -0400
Message-ID: <A1DEC407B8BBA84CA6CA498AA39CF54803A5545B_at_NDHV3001.na.corp.mckesson.com>

Did you try grepping the lines from sqlplus command just before the SQL> prompt?

Regards,
Santhosh Channa

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Subodh Deshpande Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:44 AM To: ecandrietta_at_gmail.com
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: How can I identify the database

I do not think that there is anyother way than to query from v$tables/views. yes, from pfile/spfile or from v$parameter you can get compatibility of database version, but exact version you can get only from v$tables/views another option could be to show from OEM,which again internally uses the same objects..

thanks!
Subodh
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From: Bill Ferguson <wbfergus_at_gmail.com> To: ecandrietta_at_gmail.com
Cc: ORACLE-L <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Thursday, 24 September, 2009 18:47:13 Subject: Re: How can I identify the database

Re-reading the original question, I'm thinking that maybe you need a script of some sort, with limited privileges, to run on (or query) multiple databases, to determine what kind they are?

If so, and Gints suggestion of querying v$version doesn't work (which it should), I think the only other way would be to query some of the data dictionary tables to determine the max database size (which may not always be accurate). As I recollect, the Express version has a max database size of 4GB, so "most" databases under 4GB would probably be a likely candidate for the Express version, while those above 4GB obviously wouldn't be.

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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Eriovaldo Andrietta
<ecandrietta_at_gmail.com> wrote:


> Hi,

>

>  How can I identify if the database is an Oracle Enterprise Version or an

> Oracle Express Version.

>  Consider that I don´t have access privilige in the v$database and others

> v$.

>

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