Re: Detecting Oracle Server Version in C++ & Java

From: Vyacheslav Yanuk <Vyacheslav.Yanuk_at_tessart.kiev.ua>
Date: 2000/09/20
Message-ID: <8qa1hb$r4g$1@news.lucky.net>#1/1

Vaughan Jackson <vaughan_jackson_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8q88a4$1p0$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hi,
>
> We have new functionality in our product in which we have relied upon
> Oracle 8.1+'s new function-based index feature to implement. However,
> our product must work with Oracle 8.0.6 as well. So, what we intend
> to do is disable the new functionality when our product is used in
> conjunction with Oracle versions < 8.1.
>
> Can someone tell me how I can detect the particular version of Oracle
> server being used from C++ and Java code?

select value from nls_database_parameters where parameter = 'NLS_RDBMS_VERSION' WBR, Slava Received on Wed Sep 20 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT