Errata
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 "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xv The following information was added to the preface |
"How to Contact Us |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 3 The first line on the page did read: |
"...relational users dodn't need to..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 13 The heading "Database Extensibility Options" has been changed to "Database |
Extensibility". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 13 In the last paragraph, "Oracle8i interMedia is an option that bundles..." |
has been changed to "Oracle8i interMedia bundles..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 14 The Time Series paragraph has been changed to read |
"Time Series functions extend the database SQL to provide additional |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 14 Table 1-3 Heading did read |
"Oracle8i Database Extensibility Options" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 20 The third line of the third paragraph did read |
"...you simply move or copy these read-only tablespaces from one |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 24 Beginning on the first line, the second paragraph did read |
"...NT-based systems, and you could acces each repository of |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 29 The fourth sentence of the fourth paragraph did read |
"Instances are temporal, but databases are, with proper maintenance, |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 30 The second sentence of the second paragraph did read |
"You cannot change the database name once you create the database..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 39 In Figure 2-5, the bottom group did read |
"Group 2" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 39 The second paragraph after Figure 2-5 did read |
"There are ways you can rebuild the control file..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 41 In Figure 2-6, the bottom group did read |
"Group 2" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 43 In the last paragraph, the following sentence has been added: |
"To avoid such problems first modify the INIT.ORA and then issue the |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 44 In Figure 2-7, the bottom group did read |
"Group 2" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 45 The last sentence of the first paragraph did read |
"...you shut down the instance not the database." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 45 The fourth line of the last paragraph did read: |
"Use of the password file is an added level of security beyond simply |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 45 The fifth sentence of the last paragraph did read: |
"The password file can be used to force the entry of a password, |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 46 In Figure 2-8, an additional arrow from the CKPT bgprocess to the |
datafiles has been added. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 57 In the third line of the 2nd paragraph, changed "Edit" to "edit." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | ||
Printed | Page 63 In the first paragraph, the following has been added: |
"You need the special privilege SYSOPER or SYSDBA granted through |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 76 The third line of the code at the top of the page did read |
"varchar_field VARCHAR(10) |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 82 The bulleted list at the end of the page did read: |
A = 0 is FALSE |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 85 The first paragraph did read |
"A view is an Oracle data structure constructed with a SQL statement. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 85 The syntax section at the bottom of the page did read |
"CREATE INDEX emp_idx1 ON emp (ename, job);" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 87 In Figure 4-1, "Leaf nodes" now reads "Leaf blocks". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 88 In the fourth paragraph, the first sentence did read: |
"...ROWIDs are stored in the leaf pages of the index." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 97 The fifth paragraph now reads |
"When you re-enable the operation of the constraint, you can instruct |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 115 The last word on the page has been changed from "synonym" to "synonyms". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 116 In the second to last paragraph, the heading did read |
"Default Roles" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 118 The last sentence of the last paragraph, last sentence did read: |
"...only write operations when a user logs on and logs off." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 132 The second sentence of the last paragraph, second sentence did read: |
"Fragmentation is the free space' that appears between filled |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 150 In Figure 6-3, the diagram of the EMC disk array has been changed. The |
new figure shows four disks - the box in black across the top half of the four |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 174 The fourth line of the second paragraph did read: |
"...another transaction inserts new rows into the database that would |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 174 The footnote did read: |
"The SQL92 standard..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 181 In the first line of the 1st paragraph, changed "multversion" to |
"multiversion." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 212 The last sentence on page did read |
"That chapter lists all of the applications that Oracle can |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 226 The second sentence of the 2nd paragraph did read |
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Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 297 The heading "Extensibility Options" has been changed to "Extensibility |
Features and Options". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 297 The heading "Time Series Option" has been changed to "Time Series". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 297 The last sentence of the first Time Series paragraph has been changed |
from: |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 300 The heading "interMedia Option" has been changed to "interMedia". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 300 The beginning of the first interMedia paragraph did read |
"The interMedia option is new to Oracle8i, but..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 301 The first sentence on the page did read |
"The interMedia option utilizes..." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 353 |
<353> Changed "SQL standard" to "SQL92 standard". |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 2001 |