Re: Oracle versioning discovery

desertflowerln_at_yahoo.com (Alan) wrote in message news:<b1217045.0310271011.5d5bcff2_at_posting.google.com>...
> Does anyone know a reliable way to find out 1) whether a Oracle
> version is installed and 2) if so, what version (x.x.x at least,
> ideally x.x.x.x.x) of Oracle is installed? This is on the Windows
> platform. If there are multiple Oracle Homes, I want to find out all
> the versions of each home.
> Is there a Windows tool/utility to check this? Just right click on the
> oracle.exe and look at the version tab, it doesn't tell you that. The
> only exception is v9204. Maybe Oracle is moving to that direction. But
> I need to discover all the v7.x.x and v8.0.x and v8.1.x etc. The
> registry doesn't tell you what version it is either.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Alan

metalink has an interesting utility called RDA that seems to be able to find all the homes in the registry, but doesn't seem to parse the installActions correctly. I find that so odd! But it does give some clues and pretty output.

jg

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