RE: Find client version

You can get a bunch of session information, which I think you're looking for, by using the SYS_CONTEXT object.

EG, SELECT SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV','OS_USER') FROM dual; Will give the Operating System user for the current session.

Check the Oracle docs as there is a whole bunch of other info you can pick up in this manner.

Hope this helps.

Nick

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Rudy Zung Sent: 11 November 2004 15:36
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Find client version

Not quite what I was looking for. Our developers are going to have a need for both 8i and 10g clients on=20 their machines; they'll be developing under ColdFusion. After a connection has been made to an Oracle server, we need the session itself to find out what version of Oracle client got fired up to make the connection.

But, thanks for your answer anyway.

...Rudy

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From: Jeremiah Wilton [mailto:jwilton_at_speakeasy.net]=20 Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:09 PM To: Rudy Zung
Cc: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: Find client version

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Rudy Zung wrote:

> Is there any way to programatically determine what=3D20
> version of client that I'm using?

You can find the client version in the client shared library:

strings $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so | grep ^Version

Not sure if this helps you. I suspect there is an OCI call you can make to get this, but I didn't take the time to search around for it.

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