Oracle SQL: The Essential Reference
by David C. Kreines


Following are the changes made in the 1/01 reprint.


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


(xxvi)  The first two lines on the page did read:

        "requirements, such as the rise of give a sense of data warehousing 
        and new technologies like objects, Java, and XML."

Now read:

        "requirements such as data warehousing, and new technologies like 
        objects, Java, and XML."


(xxxi-xxxii)  The "Comments and Questions" section has been updated. It 
now reads:  

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{85}  The 2nd-4th lines in the syntax for CREATE/ALTER/DROP TABLE did read:

         (column  datatype [DEFAULT expression] [Column_Contraint]
          [,column  datatype [DEFAULT expression] [Column_Contraint]]...)
        [Table_Contraint_Clause]

Now read:

         (column  datatype [DEFAULT expression] [Column_Constraint]
          [,column  datatype [DEFAULT expression] [Column_Constraint]...]
        [Table_Constraint_Clause])


(370)  The third line in the left column did read:

        "returning current, 181"

Now reads:

        "returning current, 180"