Re: Version detection ?!?

Actually, if you're on Unix, there are some games that you can play with the various executables in the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory. As the owner of the files in this directory, you can always do a "strings oracle" and look for lines in the output that "look" like a version number. When I ran a test on my local test system, the telltale "V8.0.5.0" appeared near the end when I piped my output from strings to "grep 8". My version is indeed 8.0.5.

Although I certainly don't rely upon this, this technique should work well on all versions of Unix. I don't have any good approach to a non-Unix installation.

Thanks,
Tom

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> On 24 Apr 2002 22:48:38 -0700, yavior_at_mercury.co.il (Yaron Avior)
> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >Is it possible to certainly detect the server installation WITHOUT
> >connecting the database?
>
> No
>
> Regards
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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