Mistake in Oracle book ?

Hi. In Oracle books 10g Certification All in One Exam Guide I found propably a bad answear for one of a review questions. The question was : Which line of code will cause the following SQL statement to fail ?
1 Create bigfile tablespace ocp10gdata
2 datafile 'oracle/ocp10gdata/ocp10gdata02.dbf'
3 extent management local
4 freelists 5
5 nologging;
The Answer provided by the author is that line number 4 provide the error. Which is write but there is another error namely there is no size of the datafile. So the write questions should be that line number 2 and 4 provide the error.
Is it correct ?
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mariano

The fact that there might be a mistake is not surprising. Many of the 'certification practice' books (for any software product) have errors.
The best thing to do here is to look at the Oracle documentation (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/statements_7003.htm#i2231734) and check, followed by actually testing.
In this case, you are correct - either the size or the 'reuse' clause is required when specifying the filename in a non-OMF situation.
That said, I do not think Oracle is responsible for the book. <g>

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