Managing & Using MySQL, 2nd Edition by Randy Jay Yarger, Hugh E. Williams, George Reese, Tim King The following errata were corrected in the 3/04 reprint: Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem (60) Section Title: Outer Joins, 3rd sentence This type of join is similar to an inner join, except that it includes data in the first column named that does not match any in the second column. NOW READS: This type of join is similar to an inner join, except that it includes data in the first table named that does not match any in the second table. On p. 155, in the example at the top of the page,the comment: #just books published in 2001 NOW READS: # just books where Tim Bunce is an author {163} in a block of code containing several instances of "$titleword," there were two instances of a raised dot. This raised dot HAS BEEN CHANGED to two characters: a backslash followed by a regular period (\.)