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Martin Soederstroem wrote:

> I am reading OCP Certification Exam Guide from Oracle Press. In this
> book there are questions. One of these questions reads:
>
>         "Unless otherwise defined, every SQL statement executes in
>         this type of cursor:_________"
>
> The answer that is given to the question is "explicit". Now, am I
> really stupid, or should it actually be "implicit"?
>
> Oracle doesn't provide any errata for this printing.

Implicit.

The accuracy of some of the OCP guides is not impressive. What I worry
about is whether the tests are inaccurate and the guide reflects the
test.

Pete? Any way we can verify the accuracy of the test answers? <g>

Daniel Morgan