OS: Windows 2008 Server R2
Oracle Client: 11.2
Many Thanks
Go to %ORACLE_HOME%\inventory\ContentsXML
folder and open
comps.xml
file
Look for <DEP_LIST> on ~second screen.
If following lines have
PLAT="NT_AMD64"
then this Oracle Home is 64 bit.PLAT="NT_X86"
then - 32 bit.For the Oracle 12.1 windows client, looking at the output from the TNSPING command seems to work:
With 32 bit installed on 64 bit OS:
C:>tnsping
TNS Ping Utility for 32-bit Windows: Version 12.1.0.2.0 - Production on 02-FEB-2 016 15:44:37
Copyright (c) 1997, 2014, Oracle. All rights reserved.
With 64 bit installed on 64 bit OS:
D:>tnsping
TNS Ping Utility for 64-bit Windows: Version 12.1.0.1.0 - Production on 02-FEB-2 016 16:00:23
Copyright (c) 1997, 2013, Oracle. All rights reserved.
In Linux:
1) find where is sqlplus located,
[oracle@LINUX db_1]$ `which sqlplus`
/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/sqlplus
2) Determine the file type,
[oracle@LINUX db_1]$ file /app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/sqlplus
/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1/bin/sqlplus: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs). For GNU/Linux 2.6.18, not stripped.
The following, taken from here, was not mentioned here:
If the Oracle Client is 32 bit, it will contain a "lib" folder; but if it is a 64 bit Oracle Client it will have both "lib" and "lib32" folders.
Also, starting in Oracle 11.2.0.1, the client version for 64-bit and the Oracle client for 32-bit are shipped separately, and there is an $ORACLE_HOME/lib64 directory.
$ORACLE_HOME/lib/ ==> 32 bit $ORACLE_HOME/lib64 ==> 64 bit
Or
$ORACLE_HOME/lib/ ==> 64 bit $ORACLE_HOME/lib32 ==> 32 bit
A simple way to find this out in Windows is to run SQLPlus from your Oracle homes's bin directory and then check Task Manager. If it is a 32-bit version of SQLPlus, you'll see a process on the Processes tab that looks like this:
sqlplus.exe *32
If it is 64-bit, the process will look like this:
sqlplus.exe
For Unix
grep "ARCHITECTURE" $ORACLE_HOME/inventory/ContentsXML/oraclehomeproperties.xml
And the output is:
<PROPERTY NAME="ARCHITECTURE" VAL="64"/>
For Windows
findstr "ARCHITECTURE" %ORACLE_HOME%\inventory\ContentsXML\oraclehomeproperties.xml
And the output can be:
<PROPERTY NAME="ARCHITECTURE" VAL="64"/>