RE: Version of Oracle Database without connecting to the database.
- From: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>, <fuadar@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:53:12 -0500
Are we allowed to connect to the server and know which oracle binary file is
running or set $PATH the way it would be after . oraenv is run?
Then, for example,
strings `which oracle` | grep Release | grep 'Oracle Database' | grep -v %
will report a string like: Oracle Database 11g Release 11.1.0.0.0 -
Production
I think this works pretty far back, but I haven't tested it except on 11g
today.
Of course this probably requires more horsepower than connecting and
selecting from v$instance, but maybe you're not concerned about the
horsepower.
Just be sure you don't look at any of those strings you might see without a
tight grep filter or you might be "reverse engineering the product."
I would never look at the strings in the Oracle binary, of course, and I
just guessed that 'Oracle Database' and Release would scope it down for you.
(And I figured you didn't want the one with the format string, just the
literal text one..)
Regards,
mwf
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On Behalf Of Jared Still
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:53 PM
To: fuadar@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Version of Oracle Database without connecting to the database.
Here's yet another way:
grep -iE 'RDBMS version number|RDBMS release number'
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbmsutil.sql
version constant pls_integer := 9; -- RDBMS version number
release constant pls_integer := 2; -- RDBMS release number
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Fuad Arshad <fuadar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Folks,
I'm trying to find a way to script finding an approximation of the version
of the database without connecting to the database itself.
The goal is to try to find out of the Oracle_home is a Oracle 10 home , 9
home etc .
right now i'm doiing something like
DATAVERSION1=`echo $ORACLE_HOME | awk -F/ '{print $6}'`
expecting that $6 would lead me to something like
/usr/local/oracle/product/10.2
but this is not a very foolproof implementation since installs can take
various forms and break this implementation.
Any ideas of how i can get the oracle version info considering that i will
always know the value of $ORACLE_HOME.
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