Oracle in a Nutshell
by David C. Kreines, Rick Greenwald

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated September 29, 2004.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


{31}  Second Paragraph;
Default of Distributed_Transactions is TRANSACTIONS*0.25 not *25 as printed.
Also this parameter is depreciated in Oracle 9.2


{34}  Second line;
There are a whole lot of zeros in both the minimum and maximum values for
JAVA_POOL_SIZE, and the default has quite a few less zeros.  Therefore, there is
either an error in the default (numerically or missing a multiplier) or there is an
error in the minimum.


{36}  Forth Paragraph;
TRANSACTIONS Parameter

Value: 4-2^32 (not 4-232 as printed)
Default: 1.1*SESSIONS (not 11*SESSIONS as printed)


[238]  ALTER TABLE;
DROP COLUMN syntax omitted.


(280) Select
the SAMPLE clause is missing paranthesis. It is listed as:

| table_name SAMPLE [BLOCK] sample_percent [AS OF {SCN | TIMESTAMP} expr]
it should read:
| table_name SAMPLE [BLOCK] (sample_percent) [AS OF {SCN | TIMESTAMP} expr]



[417]  First paragraph;
PROCEDURE DBMS_LOB.FREETEMPORARY ( ... ) ...
New with Oracle9i.
should read:
New with Oracle8i.


(427) DBMS_METADATA, last procedure
Last procedure is called 
GET_GRANTED_XML. 
Should be 
GET_GRANTED_DDL.