Oracle client version :installed

In my system services ,the oracle client shown is OracleOraHome817ClientCache.
But in my Add or Remove Programs , it shows Oracle 10g InstantClient 10.2.0.3 installed as well.
so can I confim that my Oracle client is Oracle 8i, since my system services show Oracle 8i.
Thanks ,
Arc

It is possible to have many Oracle products installed on the same server. Just because you saw a service with client in the name and under add/remove programs something else doesn't mean anything. Which client should you/your application be using? Also, which client do you want to use by default? In that case whatever the home selector has selected first is the default client installed.

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Shabna

disp+work.exe -V will tell you which OCI version was used during compiling and linking.
Oracle uses release independent DLL Names (Unix people would say Shared Libraries) and therefore the SAP Kernel will dynamically load any Oracle Client Version found in the standard DLL Load Path during startup.
If you have more versions installed on your computer and you are not shure which one is loaded you can use Process Explorer (freeware, see www.sysinternals.com) to find out which one is loaded. If they belong to an Oracle_home (up to release 9.2) refere to Oracle Universal Installers Inventory information in order to find out which exact version is used.
If an Oracle10 Instant Client is used, there is no corresponding Oracle_Home. In this case you can use Windows Explorer (right click on the DLL -for example oci.dll), select properties, the Version Tab and File Version).
But unfortunately Oracle is not updating the File Version every time they are patching something.
An SAP ABAP Server Integrated Resource is the version information disp+work.exe -V is listing (evquivalent to SM51 - Release Information).
<b>Datenbank Client Library : OCI_10201_SHARE (10.2.0.2.0)</b>
OCI_10201_SHARE is telling us the compile/link environment, the number in brackets (only available starting with Oracle10) tells us the the result of an Oracle Client GetVersion call. Unfortunately this one does also not reflect the installed Minipatch version up to now.
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Explorer (OCI.DLL located in the same directory as disp+work.exe):
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   oraunls10.dll - 10.2.0.1.0 Production
   oravsn10.dll - 10.2.0.1.0 Production
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   orageneric10.dll - 10.2.0.2.0 Patch2
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   orapls10.dll - 10.2.0.1.0 Patch1
   orasql10.dll - 10.2.0.1.0 Production
   oraxml10.dll - 10.1.0.2.0
   orahasgen10.dll - 10.2.0.1.0 Production
   oraocrutl10.dll - 10.2.0.1.0 Production
   oraocr10.dll - 10.2.0.1.0 Production
   oraocrb10.dll - 10.2.0.1.0 Production
   oranbeq10.dll - 10.2.0.1.0 Production
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2. the Oracle Patch and Build environment is not very reliable
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