One comment: I was surprised to see Tom Kyte did not discuss Table Functions in this book, althought it seems like he talks about almost all database features of importance. From a recent column by him in Oracle Magazine – see: On Partitioning and Pipelining, November/December 2004 – it almost seems like Table Functions (or Pipelined Functions as he calls them, which is not the same thing as Table Functions do not need to be pipelined) somehow escaped his notice until quite recently??

I have heard rumors that there might be a new edition of this book – that would probably discuss 10g as well as 9i. That would be an interesting read.