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Re: How can you tell which operating system you ar on from PL/Sql?

From: Reinhold Broeker <Reinhold.Broeker_at_ubs.com>
Date: 1997/09/24
Message-ID: <342947B6.4040@ubs.com>#1/1

Ron Reidy wrote:
>
> In the package DBMS_UTILITY, there is a function named "port_string".
> This function will return the version of Oracle server, and the
> platform/OS you are running on.
>
> rr
>

For our ORACLE 7.3 database running on Sun Solaris 2.4 I get: SVR4-be-7.0.0
So where is the string defined? Can it be changed by DBA?

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Reinhold Broeker
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Received on Wed Sep 24 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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