What s the best way to determine which version of Oracle client I m running

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The subject says it all   What is the best way to determine the exact version of the oracle client I m running   Our clients are all running Windows   I found one suggestion to run the tnsping utility  without parameters  which does display the version information   Is there a better way   Does the client install put this information in any sort of text file

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you can use the following command in SQL Developer or SQLPLUS in command prompt to find out the Oracle server version number.

select * from v$version;

in my case it gave me the below mentioned info.

Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
"CORE   11.2.0.1.0  Production"
TNS for 64-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production

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Go to ORACLE HOME bin and run  file sqlplus   see output below   64-Bit - cd  tech oracle product v11 bin     file sqlplus  sqlplus    ELF 64-bit   LSB executable  x86-64  version 1  SYSV   dynamically linked  uses shared libs   for GNU Linux 2 6 18  not stripped   32-Bit   cd  tech oracle product 11204 32bit bin    file sqlplus  sqlplus    ELF 32-bit   LSB executable  Intel 80386  version 1  SYSV   dynamically linked  uses shared libs   for GNU Linux 2 6 18  not stripped

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This is another  though not necessarily  better   way      Determining Your Current Version      To determine which Oracle client   version you have installed on your pc    run sql plus to connect to the DW  The   folder names may vary somewhat based   on your Oracle setup but should be   similar  To run sql plus choose   start  gt  programs  gt  Oracle  gt  Oracle -   OUDWclient  gt  Application   Development  gt  sqlplus  Enter your DW   user name  password  and  ordj  for   the host name or service name  This   should connect you to the DW via   sqlplus  At this point  you could   write your own sql statements to pull   information from the DW  if you knew   sql   The Oracle client version can be   determined in the first line -    SQL Plus  Release 10 2 0 1 0      Reference  Oracle Client Information http   www ohio edu technology

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In Windows -  use Command Promt      tnsping localhost   It show the version and if is installed 32 o 64 bit client  for example       TNS Ping Utility for 64-bit Windows  Version 10 2 0 4 0 - Production on 03-MAR-2015 16 47 26   Source  https   decipherinfosys wordpress com 2007 02 10 checking-for-oracle-client-version-on-windows

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Issue  1  Multiple Oracle clients are installed   A very common issue I see in my environment is that I see both workstations and  app  servers with multiple Oracle clients  sometimes as many as four  and possibly with different versions and architectures  If you are relying on the PATH and running a utility like SQLPLUS or TNSPING you ll have one of two unacceptable results    either your PATH successfully resolves the executable and you get ONE version result or  the PATH didn t resolve the executable  and you get no results    Either way  you are blind to possibly multiple client installations   Issue  2  Instant Client doesn t have TNSPING  and sometimes doesn t include SQL Plus   If a computer has the Oracle Instant Client  not the full client   then TNSPING is not included  and SQLPLUS is an optional-addon  So can t rely on those tools being there  Furthermore  the Instant Client is sometimes installed as an unzip-and-go solution  so there s no Oracle Inventory and nothing in HKLM   Issue  3  Client was installed using  Custom   and ODBC  OLEDB  ODP Net  and JDBC were not installed   Obvious case  there will be no ODBC or JDBC readme s to scrape version info from   Solution   One thing that the Instant client and the full client have in common is a DLL file called oraclient10 dll  oraclient11 dll  generally  oraclient  dll   So let s traverse the hard disk to find them and extract their version info   PowerShell is amazing at this and can do it in one line  reminds me of home sweet Unix   So you could do this programatically or even remotely   Here s the one-liner  sorry about the right scroll  but that s the nature of one-liners  eh    Supposing you re already in a PowerShell   gci C   D   -recurse -filter  oraclient  dll  -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue         VersionInfo     ft -Property FileVersion  FileName -AutoSize   And if you re not in PowerShell  i e  you re simply in a CMD shell  then no problem  just call powershell          as follows   powershell  gci C   D   -recurse -filter  oraclient  dll  -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue         VersionInfo     ft -Property FileVersion  FileName -AutoSize    Example Outputs  Here s some outputs from some of my systems   This bad citizen has 3 Oracle 11 2 0 3 clients  You can see that some of them are 32-bit and others are 64-bit   FileVersion            FileName -----------            -------- 11 2 0 3 0 Production  C  NoSync app oracle product 11 2 client 1 bin oraclient    11 2 0 3 0 Production  C  oracle product 11 2 0 client 1 bin oraclient11 dll 11 2 0 3 0 Production  C  oracle64 product 11 2 0 client 1 bin oraclient11 dll   Another system  this one has 10g client on the D    FileVersion           FileName -----------           -------- 10 2 0 4 0 Production D  oracle product 10 2 BIN oraclient10 dll   Caveats Issues   This obviously requires PowerShell  which is standard in Windows 7  and Server 2008 R2    If you have XP  which you shouldn t any more  you can easily install PowerShell  I haven t tried this on 8i 9i or 12c  If you are running 8i 9i  then there s a good chance you are on an old OS as well and don t have PowerShell and Heaven help you   It should work with 12c  since I see there is such a file oraclient12 dll that gets installed   I just don t have a Windows 12c client to play with yet

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You can get the version of the oracle client by running this command sqlplus  nolog on cmd  Another alternative will be to browse to the path C  Program Files Oracle Inventory and open the  Inventory xml  file which will give you the version as per below    lt  xml version  1 0  standalone  yes    gt   lt  -- Copyright  c  1999  2019  Oracle and or its affiliates  All rights reserved  -- gt   lt  -- Do not modify the contents of this file by hand  -- gt   lt INVENTORY gt   lt VERSION INFO gt      lt SAVED WITH gt 12 2 0 1 4 lt  SAVED WITH gt      lt MINIMUM VER gt 2 1 0 6 0 lt  MINIMUM VER gt   lt  VERSION INFO gt

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You can use the v session connect info view against the current session ID  SID from the USERENV namespace in SYS CONTEXT    e g    SELECT   DISTINCT   s client version FROM   v session connect info s WHERE   s sid   SYS CONTEXT  USERENV    SID

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Just run this  select   from v version

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You should put a semicolon at the end of select   from v version     Like this you will get all info you need     If you are looking just for Oracle for example you can do as   SQL gt  select   from v version where banner like  Oracle

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In Unix  If you don   t know the location or version of installed Oracle product  you can find it from the inventory which is usually recorded in  etc oraInst loc   gt  cat  etc oraInst loc  inventory loc  export oracle oraInventory         -- gt  Inventory location   inst group dba    gt  cd  export oracle oraInventory  gt  cd ContentsXML   Here look for a file inventory xml   gt  cat inventory xml  lt  xml version  1 0  standalone  yes    gt   lt  -- Copyright  c  1999  2010  Oracle  All rights reserved  -- gt   lt  -- Do not modify the contents of this file by hand  -- gt   lt INVENTORY gt   lt VERSION INFO gt      lt SAVED WITH gt 11 2 0 2 0 lt  SAVED WITH gt      lt MINIMUM VER gt 2 1 0 6 0 lt  MINIMUM VER gt   lt  VERSION INFO gt   lt HOME LIST gt   lt HOME NAME  OraDB 11G  LOC   export oracle product 11 2 0 2  TYPE  O  IDX  2  gt    Once you know the install location   export ORACLE HOME full path to install location export ORACLE HOME  export oracle product 11 2 0 2 export PATH  ORACLE HOME bin  PATH   A simple  sqlplus  will give you the version of the client installed    gt  sqlplus SQL Plus  Release 11 2 0 1 0 Production on Fri Mar 23 14 51 09 2012 Copyright  c  1982  2010  Oracle   All rights reserved   Enter user-name    In the above example  the version of Oracle client is 11 2 0 1  In Windows  Registry location variable in windows is INST LOC  Start  gt  Run  gt  regedit  gt  HKLM  gt  Software  gt  Oracle   Check the Inst loc entry value which will be the software installed location   You can use command prompt or you can navigate explore to the oracle home location and then cd to bin directory to lauch sqlplus which will give you the client version information

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I am assuming you want to do something programatically   You might consider  using getenv to pull the value out of the ORACLE HOME environmental variable   Assuming you are talking C or C   or Pro C

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Go to  Control Panel  -   Administrative Tools  and open  Datasources  ODBC    By default  the tab  User-DSN  will be opened  click  Add  and a dialogue will pop up

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TNSPing command line will show the version   similarly  sqlPlus exe will print its version   You can also go to the readme files in the  relnotes  directory of your client install   Version 10 2 has a file named README jdbc txt  for example  which will tell you which version has been installed

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Run the installer  click  Installed Products      This will give you a more detailed list of all installed components of the client install  e g   drivers  SQL Plus  etc   Typical Oracle installations will store inventory information in C  Program Files Oracle Inventory  but figuring out the installed versions isn t simply a matter of opening a text file   This is AFAIK authoritative  and shows any patches that might have been applied as well  which running the utilities does not do    EDIT   A CLI option would be to use the OPatch utility   c   gt  path  path   lt path to OPatch directory in client home  e g   C  oracle product 10 2 0 client 1 OPatch gt  c   gt set ORACLE HOME  lt oracle home directory of client  e g   C  Oracle product 10 2 0 client 1 gt  c   gt opatch lsinventory   This gives you the overall version of the client installed

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