Oracle Essentials: Oracle 8 and Oracle 8i
by Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, & Jonathan Stern


This page contains changes made in the 10/00 printing.


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**NOTE: Chapter 14 has been replaced in this printing, and the index
has been updated.**


(vii) Added "The Data Dictionary.....................................50" to
Chapter 2 in the Table of Contents.


(x) The third entry in the TOC under Chapter 14 did read: 
	
	"Oracle in the Middle Tier" 

Now reads:

	"Oracle Internet Application Server"


(x) The fourth entry in the TOC under Chapter 14 did read:

	"Oracle Tools and the Internet Client"

Now reads:

	"Oracle Portal"


(xiv) The third line of the second paragraph did read:

	"Oracle Application Server, WebDB, and Java."

Now reads:

	"Oracle Internet Application Server, Oracle Portal, and Java."


(29) The last sentence in the fourth paragraph did read:

        "Instances are temporal, but databases are, with proper maintenance,
        last forever."

Now reads:

        "Instances are temporal, but databases, with proper maintenance, last
        forever."


(30) The fourth line in the first paragraph did read: 

        "The instance is static: no changes can occur to it."

Now reads:

        "The database is static: no changes can occur to it."


(34) The third sentence in the fourth paragraph did read:

        "You might conclude that if storing the control file..."

Now reads:

        "You might conclude that storing the control file..."


(40) The second sentence in the 4th paragraph did read:

        "The the operating system..."

Now reads:

        "The operating system..."


(60) The first bullet under the topic "Net8 Configuration Files" did read:

        "On NT ORACLE_HOME\net80\admin AND Oracle 8.0 and 
	ORACLE_HOME\network\admin for Oracle8i"

Now reads:

        "On NT ORACLE_HOME\net80\admin FOR Oracle 8.0 and 
        ORACLE_HOME\network\admin for Oracle8i"


{69} Item number 6 in the numbered list did read:

        "The next available shared server process reads the request from 
	the response queue and does the work."

Now reads:

        "The next available shared server process reads the request from 
        the request queue and does the work."


(78) In the third line of the 2nd paragraph, changed "DD-MON-YY:HH:MI:SS" 
to "DD-MON-YY HH:MI:SS."


{85} In the last paragraph, the SQL used as an example did read:

        CREATE INDEX emp_ename_job_idex ON emp (ename, job);

Now reads:

        CREATE INDEX emp_idx1 ON emp (ename, job);


{87} An arrow pointing from the rightmost branch block to the rightmost leaf 
block was added to Figure 4-1.


[88] The second sentence in the 5th paragraph did read:

        "Figure 4-2 shows an illustration of how a bitmapped index is
        stored and used in a selection condition." 

Now reads:

        "Figure 4-2 shows an illustration of how a bitmapped index is stored.  
        Figure 9-13 on page 213 shows how a bitmapped index is used in a 
        selection condition."


(93) The fourth line of the first paragraph in the sidebar did read:
        
        "...second normal form (2FN), and so on."

Now reads:
        
        "...second normal form (2NF), and so on."


(125) Figure 5-1: "Respository" was changed to "Repository."


(133) The first bulleted item on the page did read: 

        "* Segment fragmentation (i.e., segments consisting of multiple 
        extents)"

Now reads:

        "* Segment fragmentation (i.e., "holes" in segments consisting of 
        multiple extents)"


(204) The first sentence of the first paragraph did read:
 
        "...it handles a variety of purposes..." 

Now reads:

        "...it serves a variety of purposes..."


(220) The second sentence of the fourth paragraph did read:

        "These users need ad hocad hoc query tools." 

Now reads: 

        "These users need ad hoc query tools." 


(269) The second sentence in the last paragraph did read:  

        "...the sum of the execution time of all serial operations is directly 
        added to any performance gains..."

Now reads:

        "...the sum of the execution time of all serial operations can offset 
        any performance gains..."


(297) The heading "Extensibility Features and Options" was changed to 
"Extensibility Options."


<304-325> Chapter 14 has been replaced.


(328) In the first paragraph, changed "devleopers" to "developers" and 
"softoware" to "software."


(352, Index) The entry for "SGL standard" was changed to "SQL standard."


<335-355> The index has been replaced.


(Colophon) Paragraph 5;
Changed "Ellie Volkenhausen" to "Ellie Volckhausen."