RE: Correct OCI Version

hi jared!

unfortunately not!

1st. because the dispatcher dll's (ociw32.dll for oci7 and oci.dll for oci8) might have a different version then the underlying "real" oci client dll's. 2nd. because many of the distributed dll's do not have any version information resource. this is a problem that i already reported several times to the oracle support but i was told that nobody really seems to care.

ps:
actually i was looking for a programmatically way to do so but clearly it would also be possible to retrieve the version information from the version resources within the dll.

cheers

-do

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 03:48
To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com; dieter.oberkofler_at_chello.at

Can't you just right click on the dll and choose 'properties' to get the info?

Jared

On Saturday 12 January 2002 03:35, dieter.oberkofler_at_chello.at wrote:
> hi to all!
>
> it's ages now that i'm looking for a
> good method for determining the exact
> oci version installed and/or used and
> i'm still looking.
>
> is there someone out there who has found
> "the" solution on how to correctly determine
> the used oci version and want to share
> this information with us ?
>
> do make it a little more clear what
> i'm looking for:
>
> since oracle 7.3 (i believe) the
> oracle oci dll's do no longer need
> to be linked with the exact version
> name but a generic dll (ociw32.dll)
> looks for the most current oci version
> that can be found on the workstation.
> this process is quite nicely described
> in the oracle note "43972.1". so far so
> good but by doing so, the application
> using the ociw32.dll does no longer know
> what the exact version of oci is.
> even if dynamically (LoadLibrary) loading
> the "low-level" oracle dll called by ociw32.dll
> (e.g.. ora805.dll for oci version 8.0.5)
> it would be possible to know that we are
> running 8.0.5 but this would no longer
> work with 8i where all 8i oci versions
> call the same dll named "oraclient8.dll".
>
> thank you for your help
>
> -do

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