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