AskTom “How to identify the OS from the database”

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ops$tkyte-ORA10G> select dbms_utility.port_string from dual;

PORT_STRING
——————————————————————————-
Linuxi386/Linux-2.0.34-8.1.0

Solaris:
SunOS aria-dev 5.7 Generic_106541-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4

ops$tkyte@ORA817DEV> select dbms_utility.port_string from dual;

PORT_STRING
——————————————————————————-
SVR4-be-8.1.0
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What a quite weird package/field name for the OS identification purpose. (but it works.)