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How to retreive the version os software

Last post was 07 Aug 2001 at 07:32
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  • 19 years ago

    Form Vb i want to retrieve the version of the software eg oracle8i.


    Using Vb i have to fetch the version of Oracle and store it in a variable.





    thanks


    dhinakaran

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  • 19 years ago

    I don't actually know Oracle very well, but there might be a registry value somewhere you could try.... I suggest looking at
    HKEYLOCALMACHINE\Software\Oracle (or whoever make it...)
    using regedit. You can then use the registry API to retreive the value, if there is a version key...

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