Operating system
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An operating system is the software that manages a computer system (schedule tasks and control the use of system resources). An operating system is made up of a kernel and various system utility programs.
Oracle supported operating systems
Here are some of the operating systems that Oracle supports:
- Linux
- Oracle Enterprise Linux
- Linux for System Z
- Red Hat Linux
- SUSE Linux
- Unix
- OS/390 (IBM MVS)
- Windows (Microsoft)
- Mac OSX (Apple)
- OpenVMS
Operating system your database runs on
You can use the dbms_utility.port_string function to determine on what hardware platform, operating system and TWO TASK PROTOCOL version your Oracle database is running on. The specification for this function follows:
FUNCTION DBMS_UTILITY.PORT_STRING RETURN VARCHAR2;
Here are some examples:
SQL> SELECT dbms_utility.port_string FROM dual; PORT_STRING -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linuxi386/Linux-2.0.34-8.1.0
SQL> VAR portstr VARCHAR2(100) SQL> EXEC :portstr := dbms_utility.port_string; PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL> PRINT portstr PORTSTR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IBMPC/WIN_NT-8.1.0
In the above example the platform is IBMPC, the OS is WIN_NT and the Two Task protocol version is 8.1.0.
Some of the other possible port string values:
- VAX/VMS-7.1.0.0
- DEC Alpha OSF/1, r1.1-8.1.0
- SVR4-be-64bit-8.1.0
- SVR4-be-7.0.0
- x86_64/Linux-2.4.10-9.1.0
- Linuxi386/Linux-2.0.34-8.1.0
- IBMPC/WIN_NT64-9.1.0
- IBMPC/WIN_NT-8.1.0
- IBMPC/WIN_NT-7.3.3
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