Oracle table creation missing right parenthesis - oracle

Question

This should be a pretty simple problem but I just can't see what is wrong. I am trying to create a table with a few check and not null constraints on said table, however I am getting a missing right parenthesis error when trying to execute the command.
CREATE TABLE students (
studentID NUMBER(5) PRIMARY KEY,
forename VARCHAR2(15) NOT NULL,
surname VARCHAR2(15) NOT NULL,
street VARCHAR2(20),
city VARCHAR2(15),
postcode VARCHAR2(10) NOT NULL,
dateOfBirth DATE() NOT NULL CHECK(dateOfBirth BETWEEN DATE '1999-01-01' AND SYSDATE),
gender VARCHAR2(10) CHECK(gender = 'male' OR gender = 'female' OR gender = 'both'),
category VARCHAR2(15) NOT NULL CHECK(category = 'first year undergraduate' OR caregory = 'postgraduate'),
fulltimeStudent VARCHAR(5) NOT NULL CHECK(fulltimeStudent = 'yes' OR fulltimeStudent = 'no'),
nationality VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL,
smoker VARCHAR(5) CHECK(smoker = 'yes' OR smoker = 'no') AND NOT NULL,
specialNeeds VARCHAR(30),
additionalComments VARCHAR(50),
status VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL CHECK(status = 'placed' or status = 'waiting')
);
Full error below -

Answer 1

There's no need for parenthesis at "DATE()".
Also, you cannot use SYSDATE in check constraints, you may wish to use a trigger instead, and there's a typo at "CAREGORY".
You can run it like this:
CREATE TABLE students (
studentID NUMBER(5) PRIMARY KEY,
forename VARCHAR2(15) NOT NULL,
surname VARCHAR2(15) NOT NULL,
street VARCHAR2(20),
city VARCHAR2(15),
postcode VARCHAR2(10) NOT NULL,
dateOfBirth DATE NOT NULL,
gender VARCHAR2(10) CHECK(gender = 'male' OR gender = 'female' OR gender = 'both'),
category VARCHAR2(15) NOT NULL CHECK(category = 'first year undergraduate' OR category = 'postgraduate'),
fulltimeStudent VARCHAR(5) NOT NULL CHECK(fulltimeStudent = 'yes' OR fulltimeStudent = 'no'),
nationality VARCHAR(25) NOT NULL,
smoker VARCHAR(5) NOT NULL CHECK(smoker = 'yes' OR smoker = 'no'),
specialNeeds VARCHAR(30),
additionalComments VARCHAR(50),
status VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL CHECK(status = 'placed' or status = 'waiting')
);
Edit-Added docs reference on sysdate in check constraints:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28286/clauses002.htm
Conditions of check constraints cannot contain the following
constructs:
Subqueries and scalar subquery expressions
Calls to the functions that are not deterministic (CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, DBTIMEZONE, LOCALTIMESTAMP, SESSIONTIMEZONE, SYSDATE, SYSTIMESTAMP, UID, USER, and USERENV)
Calls to user-defined functions
Dereferencing of REF columns (for example, using the DEREF function)
Nested table columns or attributes
The pseudocolumns CURRVAL, NEXTVAL, LEVEL, or ROWNUM
Date constants that are not fully specified