Identifying Oracle Server

Hi,

I am developing an application where i need to install the application only when I see Oracle server is installed in the system. I am using Windows. Is there any specific registry key which will help me to find/assure that ORALCE SERVER is installed in that system and the key must be unique across all the ORACLE servers.

Thanks in Advance.

hi

please if you found out how to do that email it to me
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thanks

One approach (Oracle 8i under Windows)

Look under
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oracle
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oracle\HOMEx (x is numeric)

for a value with name ORACLE_SID and for a value with ORA_xxxxx_PFILE where xxxxx is the content of ORACLE_SID.

ORA_xxxxx_PFILE points to a file. Within that file, db_name value should be the unique database name.