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Re: query $ORACLE_HOME

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:57:43 +0800
Message-ID: <419C9C47.4F40@yahoo.com>


robert wrote:
>
> Connor McDonald wrote:
> > check dbms_system
>
> hmm why I dont have dbms_system ?
>
> Connected to:
> Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production
> With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
>
> SQL> select user from dual;
>
> USER
> ------------------------------
> SYSTEM
>
> SQL> desc dbms_system
> ERROR:
> ORA-04043: object dbms_system does not exist

SQL> declare
  2 x varchar2(100);
  3 begin
  4 dbms_system.get_env('ORACLE_HOME',x);   5 dbms_output.put_line(x);
  6 end;
  7 /
C:\oracle\ora10

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

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