Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xvi changed "ora.com" to "oreilly.com" both times it appears |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page xvi |
para. 2: the URL for updates now reads: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 6 |
changed the equation on line 3 to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 6 In the first sentence after the equation, changed "160 gigabytes" to |
"1.6 gigabytes" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 7 |
In the second para under Deletion Anomalies, the sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 9 last line: changed "related" to "persistent" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 21 2nd line of "Key" entry changed "no longer a key" to "no |
longer a superkey" |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 29 item #5, line 1: changed "OK button" to "Create button" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 32 figure 3-9 is new. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 48 in both tables, changed "0-222-22222-2" to "0-111-22222-2" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 48 Changed the display from |
{ISBN, PubPhone} and {PubPhone, PubName} |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 59-60 The sample tables are not designated S and T as they are |
referred to in the text - very minor detail, but labeling the tables |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 62 figure 5-7 is also new. |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 66 line between tables, and next-to-last line on page: changed the |
greater-than-or-equal-to sign to a regular greater-than sign |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 70 last column's header in first table: changed "S.B 4" to "T.B |
4" (the 4's a subscript |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 70 table 2: made column S.A3 white and column S.A4 shaded |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 70 1st and 2nd tables: the "h" in the lower |
right-hand cells changed to "j" |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 70 first table, header "S.A1": the subscript "1" is now bold, not italic |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 73 3rd table: the "h" in the lower right-hand |
cell changed to "j" |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 76 column B3: made the upper-case "I"s into "i"s |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 81 changed |
(sel S.A2 = T.A2, S.A4 = T.A4(SxT)) |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 89 para. beginning "(In SQL-92...": changed |
"this clauses has" to "these clauses have" |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 90 |
code sample 3 now reads: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 97 line 1 of first code example: changed "DISTINCT" to "DISTINCTROW" |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 101 Changed the sentence after Table 6-7 from |
"This is, in fact, the semi-join" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 104 next-to-last line on page: removed ";" and added it to the end |
of the last line; also, changed the first line of that code example to |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 104 para, under "GROUP BY GroupByCriteris", |
last sentence: changed "the order of column names |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 104 Under the heading for the "Having" option |
"The HAVING option in used in conjunction ..." |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 107 line 2: changed "form" to "from" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 108 last line: changed "indicies" to "indices" |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 110 middle para.: deleted extra "than one" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 116 next-to-last line: changed "Jet DMBS" to "Jet DBMS" |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 122 Example 7-1, removed the line: dbLibrary.Name = "LIBRARY" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 123 Changed the line |
Set dbLibrary = ws.OpenDatabase("d:daolibrary.mdb") |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 125 para. 2 line 4: changed "below" to "above" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 128 last line: changed "Holliday" to "Holiday" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 138 Example 8-1: changed the first line from |
intGrade = Val(InputBox("Enter student's average _ test score: ")) |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 142 added a line to the first code example |
intvar = 123 |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 147 Figure 9-5: Two boxes in the diagram Containers and Documents should be |
connected. And Containers should also be connected to the horizontal |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 147 1st line of text: changed "is the just" to "is just the" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 147 figure 9-5 is new. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 149 figure 9-7 is also new. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 157 Changed the line |
"of the previous example, we could have written" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 158 2nd para., 1st line: changed |
Running the code in Exaple 9-6 produces the message box |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 161 4th line from bottom: changed "use to this" to "use this" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 171 example 9-10: in the example title, changed "Container" to |
"Containers" |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 176 last line: fixed the weird font problem |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 177 in step 5 in the box, changed "dbOne.Table..." to "dbTwo.Table..." |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 191 line 2 on page: added a comma after "QueryDefName" |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 193 Changed the line |
strSQL = "UPDATE BOOKS SET Price = Price*1.1 WHERE Price > 20" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 193 Changed the line |
If qdf.RecordsAffected > 15 Then |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 193 The following two lines of Example 10-7 were modified so that |
they appear as follows: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 202 Replaced the line |
Msgbox rsTable!Title |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 205 At the second bullet point, inserted the word "valid" between |
"there is no" AND "current record". So it now reads "there |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 230 In line 2, inserted the words "are sufficient to" after the |
words "rows of a table that" |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 231 Replaced double arrow symbol with a large X, as on page 62 under the |
definition of cartesian product. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 232 In Table B-4 |
1. Changed the last cell in the last row to "red oak" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 237 In paragraph numbered 4, in the second to last line, changed "right" to |
"left." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 238 In the table at bottom: changed Meville to Melville. |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 245 Two headings were added at the beginning of the index: "Symbols," and |
"Numbers." |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 246 In column 1, line 13 |
"for specific objects, ??-229, 210-??" |
Anonymous | Mar 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 253 added the following to the end of the next-to-last para. |
Whenever possible, our books use RepKover (tm), a durable and flexible |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 253 Colphon, 2nd para., line 2: changed "Quark Xpress 3.5" to |
"QuarkXpress 3.3" |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 1998 |