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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Corrected".

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Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 11
line 3: "capture" is now in bold constant-width font

Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 12
1st para. under "Referencing Package Elements" is new

A package "owns" its elements, just as a table owns its columns. An
individual element of a package only makes sense, in fact, in the
context of the package. Consequently, you use the same dot notation
employed in "table.column" syntax for "package.element". Let's take a
look at this practice by calling elements of the pets_r_us package.

 Anonymous  Feb 1998
Printed Page 12
1st para. under "Referencing Package Elements" is new

A package "owns" its elements, just as a table owns its columns. An
individual element of a package only makes sense, in fact, in the
context of the package. Consequently, you use the same dot notation
employed in "table.column" syntax for "package.element". Let's take a
look at this practice by calling elements of the pets_r_us package.

 Anonymous  Mar 1998
Printed Page 21
para. 4, line 5 and line -1: both occurances of "DMBS" now read "DBMS"

Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 27
line -7

"Provide a salary that does this"
now reads
"Provide a procedure that does this"

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 33
First 2 code examples

First lines of both did read:

PACKAGE config

now reads:

PACKAGE BODY config

 Anonymous  Feb 2000
Printed Page 85
line 2: "a hour of debugging" should be "an hour of debugging"

Anonymous 
Printed Page 98
para. 7: before "I then changed my hard-coded ..." added the

following:

"I decided to use 100 because my identifier variable needed to hold
identifiers of the form "package.element" and so that I had some
extra space with which to work."

 Anonymous  May 1999
Printed Page 153
under the subheading "PL/Vision constants"

dbtab CONSTANT VARCHAR2(2) := 'DB' ;

now reads

dbtab CONSTANT VARCHAR2(2) := 'DB' ;

(removed the extra space before the semi-colon)

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 167
para. -2: added the following sentence to the beginning of the paragraph

under "max_line VARCHAR2(1000)":

"I had to "hard code" the 1000 again in this declaration because you
must supply a literal when you declare a length for a VARCHAR2 string."

("literal" is in italics.)

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 189
the heading "PLV1st: List Mananger": "Mananger" now reads "Manager"

Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 233
code sample 2 now reads the following

__________________________________________

SQL> SELECT PLV.now from DUAL;
__________________________________________

August 3, 1996 20:19:35

SQL> exec p.1(PLV.now);
August 3, 1996 20:20:48

(replaced the line with "NOW" and the blank line following it with a
line of dashes.)

 Anonymous  May 1999
Printed Page 338
Table 13-1, row 3

"UTL_FILE.INVALID_FILE-HANDLE"
now reads
"UTL_FILE.INVALID_FILE_HANDLE"

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 338

Table 13-1, row 3: "UTL_FILE.INVALID_FILE-HANDLE" now reads:

"UTL_FILE.INVALID_FILE_HANDLE"

 Anonymous  May 1999
Printed Page 379
code sample 1, line 6

"display_line(line_ind)"
now reads
"disp_line(line_ind)"

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 379

code sample 1, line 6: "display_line(line_ind)" now reads:

"disp_line(line_ind)"

 Anonymous  May 1999
Printed Page 413

Table 16-1, cloumn 3 ("Description"): row 1 now reads:

"Sets and retrieves the current string used as the author in a
program header. The default is NULL."

("NULL" is in constant width.)

and in the same column, row 2 now reads:

"Set and retrieve the two types of indentation: initial and
incremental. The default for indent is 0 and for incremental is 3."

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 480
last para. before heading: changed "the rows will have been

written to PLVrfrnc" to "the rows will have been written to PLVctlg"

 Anonymous  Feb 1998
Printed Page 480
last para. before heading: changed "the rows will have been

written to PLVrfrnc" to "the rows will have been written to PLVctlg"

 Anonymous  Mar 1998
Printed Page 544
para. 3, line -2, "...inside an IF statement in PLVcmt"

"PLVcmt" now reads "PLVlog"

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 561
code sample 2, line 1

SQL> execute PLVlog.to_pstab

now reads:

SQL> execute PLVlog.to_dbtab

 Anonymous  May 1999
Printed Page 664
added the following to the next-to-last para.

Whenever possible, our books use RepKover (tm), a durable and flexible
lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's limit, perfect
binding is used.

 Anonymous  Feb 1998
Printed Page 664
added the following to the next-to-last para.

Whenever possible, our books use RepKover (tm), a durable and flexible
lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's limit, perfect
binding is used.

 Anonymous  Mar 1998