Whats the best way to determine which version of Oracle client Im running 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 youll have one of two unacceptable results either your PATH successfully resolves the executable and you get ONE version resultor, the PATH didnt resolve the executable, and you get no results. Either way, you are blind to possibly multiple client installations. Issue 2 Instant Client doesnt have TNSPING, and sometimes doesnt include SQLPlus. If a computer has the Oracle Instant Client not the full client, then TNSPING is not included, and SQLPLUS is an optional addon. Missing corantdbsfmcus. Windows 7. I was able to find a copy of the file and tried to replace it, but when I did I got a. SAP BusinessObjects Explorer XI 3. Windows Supported Platforms SAP COMMUNITY NETWORK SDN sdn. BPX bpx. sap. com BOC boc. Oracle WebLogic Server Issues. This chapter describes issues associated with Oracle WebLogic Server. It includes the following topics JDK 7 Certification. Oracle ODBC driver from DataDirect eliminates the need for database client libraries and improves performance. Save time and reduce the cost of implementation and. Burleson Consulting is an altruistic company and we believe in sharing our Oracle extensive knowledge through publishing Oracle books and Oracle articles, video. Oracle Accreditation Program Increase your productivity by using Oracles Accreditation Program our new framework to accelerate your knowledge of our Oracle. So cant rely on those tools being there. Furthermore, the Instant Client is sometimes installed as an unzip and go solution, so theres 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 readmes to scrape version info from. Solution One thing that the Instant client and the full client have in common is a DLL file called oraclient. InstallingO1.png' alt='Install Oracle 9I Client On Windows 7 64 Bit' title='Install Oracle 9I Client On Windows 7 64 Bit' />So lets traverse the hard disk to find them and extract their version info. Power. Shell 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. Heres the one liner sorry about the right scroll, but thats the nature of one liners, eh. Supposing youre already in a Power. Shell gci C ,D recurse filter oraclientError. Action Silently. Continue. Version. Info ft Property File. Version, File. Name Auto. Size. And if youre not in Power. Shell, i. e. youre simply in a CMD shell, then no problem, just call powershell. C ,D recurse filter oraclient Error. Action Silently. Continue. Version. Info ft Property File. Version, File. Name Auto. Size. Example Outputs. Heres some outputs from some of my systems. This bad citizen has 3 Oracle 1. You can see that some of them are 3. File. Version File. Name. Production C No. Syncapporacleproduct1. Facebook Fr Vista Sidebar on this page. Production C oracleproduct1. Production C oracle. Another system, this one has 1. D File. Version File. Name. Production D oracleproduct1. BINoraclient. 10. CaveatsIssues. This obviously requires Power. Shell, which is standard in Windows 7 and Server 2. R2. If you have XP which you shouldnt any more you can easily install Power. Shell. I havent tried this on 8i9i or 1. If you are running 8i9i, then theres a good chance you are on an old OS as well and dont have Power. Shell and Heaven help you. It should work with 1. I see there is such a file oraclient. I just dont have a Windows 1.