Java Programming with Oracle JDBC
By Donald Bales

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated May 21, 2002.

UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


(11)  Last paragraph;
Oracle DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) should read Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC)


{15}  2en;
In this section: For example, you can use the 7.3.4 driver to access an 8.1.6
database, as long as you don't try to use features that didn't exist in the 7.3.4
version of the database.

the last statement maybe: that didn't exist in the 7.3.4 version of the driver.


{17}  setting environment variables;
The book mention:

C:\oracle\ora81\bin

but the documentation from oracle mention:

"lib instead of bin" for Windows NT

JDBC OCI Drivers:
If you are installing the JDBC OCI driver, you must also set the following value for
the library path environment variable

On Solaris, set LD_LIBRARY_PATH as follows:

[Oracle Home]/lib

This directory contains the libocijdbc8.so shared object library.

On Windows NT, set PATH as follows:

[Oracle Home]\lib

This directory contains the ocijdbc8.dll dynamic link library.


(116)  in example 7-1;
the line that reads:
OracleDataSource ds = new OracleDataSource-();

should read:
OracleDataSource ds = new OracleDataSource();

the '-' before the '()'  should be removed.


{161}  1st Code Example;
TO_CHAR( '1980010100000000', 'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS') should use the TO_DATE function instead


(202)  Example 10-6;
import java.test.*; should be import java.text.*;


[413]  Figure 17-1 ;
For Figure 17-1 of P413, in my experiment with exactly the same transaction setting
as the book uses (and I use ORACLE).

when session one did a 'DELETE' on one record, the 'insert' of the same record from
session two blocked. but the book says "Insert fails with duplicate values'.

I tried out everything in this Figure, For everything else I got the same result as
the book except the above one.