Chapter 1: Oracle 11g R1 & R2 New Features and Tuning Overview Chapter 2: Basic Index Principles Chapter 3: Finding Disk I/O Bottlenecks Chapter 4: Initialization Parameters and Tuning Chapter 5: Oracle Enterprise Manager Chapter 6: Using Explain Plan and Tkprof Chapter 7: Using Hints for Query Tuning Chapter 8: Developer/Query Tuning Chapter 9: Table Joins & Other Advanced Tuning Chapter 10: Using PL/SQL to Enhance Performance Chapter 11: Exadata, Exalogic, Tuning RAC & Parallel Features Chapter 12: V$ Views and Tuning Chapter 13: X$ Tables and Tuning Chapter 14: Using AWR & Statspacl to Tune Waits and Latches Chapter 15: Performing a Quick System Review Chapter 16: Monitoring the System Using UNIX Utilities Appendix A: Key Initialization Parameters Appendix B: V$ Views and Descriptions Appendix C: X$ Tables and Descriptions