Oracle Version
 
 Requirement is simple; you want to retrieve/recover the Version Information of your currently installed Oracle Database. Let us discuss most of the ways of doing so in Oracle & SQL Server. Here are some of the ways to get it:  1)  DBA_REGISTRY (Table)        S ELECT * FROM DBA_REGISTRY ;  SELECT comp_id, comp_name, version, status, namespace, control FROM DBA_REGISTRY  WHERE comp_name LIKE '%Oracle%' ORDER BY comp_name;  This will give you the db version along with all the other oracle components installed. Here is the result:     COMP_ID    COMP_NAME    VERSION    STATUS    NAMESPACE    CONTROL       CATALOG    Oracle   Database Catalog Views    9.1.0.3.0    VALID    SERVER    SYS       CATPROC    Oracle   Database Packages and Types    9.1.0.3.0    INVALID    SERVER    SYS     2 )       V$VERSION  ( View )  SELECT * FROM V$VERSION  This is the result:     BANNER       Oracle Database 9G Enterprise Edition   Release 9.1.0.3.0 - 64b...
