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Chapter 1: Oracle10g New Features and Tuning Overview Chapter 2: Basic Index Principles Chapter 3: Finding Disk I/O Bottlenecks Chapter 4: Init.ora 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: Tuning RAC & Using Parallel Features Chapter 12: V$ Views and Tuning Chapter 13: X$ Tables and Tuning Chapter 14: Using statspack to tune waits & latches Chapter 15: Performing a Quick System Review Chapter 16: Monitoring the system using UNIX utilities Appendix A: Key init.ora Parameters Appendix B: V$ Views and Descriptions Appendix C: X$ Tables and Descriptions