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Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page xvi
line 5: After the sentence ending, "...whatever

it took to get the job done" added this sentence:

"Special thanks to John Dockery, without whose invaluable
assistance this book would not have come to fruition."

 Anonymous  Jul 1998
Printed Page xiv
in the "About the CD-ROM," the second "tools.tar" changed to "tools.zip"

Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page xv-xvi
The following information was added to the preface after the

"Comments and Questions" heading:

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The addition of this text threw off the page break for page xvi.

 Anonymous  Jan 2000
Printed Page 7
Added paragraph #8 as follows

8. Modify the PATH to include the $TOOLS variable defined in 2. above. In
the Korn or Bourne shells this can be done by adding the following
statement to the user .profile script:

PATH=$PATH:$TOOLS

Although it is not required, you may find it useful to add $DBA to the PATH
as well.

(Note that ".profile" should be in italics)

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 8
Modified Installation Summary paragraph #1 as follows

1. Create directories for DBA and TOOLS, assign the DBA and TOOLS
environment variables to them, and add $TOOLS to the user PATH.

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 10
"Calculate the age of a file in days": chapter number should be 11, not 10

Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 14
"Replace a fine in RCS" now reads "Replace a file in RCS."

Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 15
Last line: added closing ")".

Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 26
Under "dbousers.sql,"

"Output File: dbausers.lst" is now spelled correctly (with an "o"):
"Output File: dbousers.lst"

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 47
Middle of the page


added the word "process" to the sentence beginning "The every5 script..."
to read "The every5 script allows you to establish an automated process
that will..."

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 73
Changed "archwaitSQL" to "archwait.sql" (lower case .sql).

Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 74
Changed "startmgr" to "startm", and "stopmgr" to "stopm".

Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 106
Changed "Output File: bad_cons.lis" to


"Output File: bad_cons.lis, <tablename>_drop.sql,
<tablename>_create.sql

(all in italic)

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 106 and 107
Changed all occurrances of

<table_name>drop.sql to <table_name>_drop.sql
and
<table_name>create.sql to <table_name>_create.sql

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 136
Changed last sentence under "resize" to

"This script assumes that no foreign key constraints exist for the table."

 Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 183
Changed index entry for "reports, security-related" to 52-71.

Anonymous  Dec 1998
Printed Page 188
Added the following credit to the last paragraph of the Colophon

"The CD design was created by Hanna Dyer."

 Anonymous  Dec 1998