INSIDE RELATIONAL DATABASES
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Known errata in Inside Relational Databases: Second Edition
P. 8. Introduction:
A heading reads as:
"Copying file from CD-ROM."
Should read as:
"Copying files from CD-ROM."
P. 14. Forms section, 1st paragraph, 1st sentence:
"...showing information from a table of data about customers."
Should read as:
"...showing information from a table of data about employees."
P. 23. 3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence:
The text refers to a field called "DateEmployed" when
the field in question is called "DateOfBirth".
P. 167. 3rd to last paragraph, 3rd sentence:
"The client no longer communicates directly to
the database server."
"The client no longer communicates directly with
the database server."
P. 177. Last paragraph, 1st sentence:
"Think about a questions like …
"
"Think about questions like … "
P. 183. Penultimate paragraph, 3rd sentence:
"If you normalize that data you will end up with set
of tables … "
"If you normalize that data you will end up with a
set of tables … "
P. 193. Second paragraph, last sentence but one:
"Queries are written in SQL, just
like queries."
"Views are written in SQL, just like queries."
P. 200. 1st paragraph, 5th sentence:
"This statement looks for all records in the ORG table
where the value in the column DIVISION is equal to Western
and sets it to Eastern."
Should read as:
"This statement looks for all records in the ORG table where
the value in the column DIVISION is equal to Eastern
and sets it to Western."
P. 205.3rd paragraph, 4th sentence:
"Each transfer is a discrete transaction comprising
of two operations."
"Each transfer is a discrete transaction comprising two operations."
P. 240. 3rd to last paragraph, last sentence:
"That will make it very difficult to
you to make use of the Health Authority’s table."
"That will make it very difficult for you
to make use of the Health Authority’s table."
P. 258. 1st sentence, paragraph in italics:
"Some of these relational operators (Restrict, Project,
Union, Difference and Project are primitive."
Should read as:
"Some of these relational operators (Restrict, Project, Union,
Difference and Product) are primitive."
P. 300. 2nd paragraph, last sentence:
"find a query which will list all of the cars and
also shows which cars"
"find a query which will list all of the cars and will
also show which cars"
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