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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: How can you tell which operating system you ar on from PL/Sql?
Ron Reidy wrote:
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> 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?
-- Reinhold Broeker ----------------------------------------------------------------- Union Bank of Switzerland / Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft ISOR/ISDV +49 69 1369 1626 email: Reinhold.Broeker_at_ubs.comReceived on Wed Sep 24 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
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