Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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Other Digital Version | 17 In the table, the function for "(real),(double)" |
ePub version (reading on a Sony Reader) |
Jonathan Haddock | Sep 23, 2009 |
Other Digital Version | 17 Please ignore my previous errata for this book |
Please ignore my previous errata for this book (17 |
Jonathan Haddock | Sep 23, 2009 |
Printed | Page 32 section on binary literals |
Key information is missing here: How are the hex values 00-1f and 7f-ff represented in a binary literal? |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 32 last two lines |
Do not break the literal -45198.2164e+10 into two pieces with a linebreak. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 34 second paragraph |
This paragraph is rather confusing. The first sentence says that any character may be used in an |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 35 lines 18-19 |
"two dashes and a whitespace (--)" -> "two dashes (--) and a whitespace" |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 89 line 13 |
The operator <=> is mentioned, but this operator does not seem to be defined anywhere in the book. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 89 section on comparison operators |
Each operator description begins with "Match rows". The operators in fact do not match rows; they simply |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 91 sections on OR and AND |
Since these operators always take exactly two arguments, the phrase "if any of the arguments" should |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 125 beginning of index |
The index does not begin with a symbols section listing + - * etc. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 126 N section of index |
The term NULL does not appear in the index. It is a fairly important component of SQL |
Anonymous |