Introduction
Course Objectives, Course Agenda and Appendixes Used in this Course
Audience and Prerequisites
Sample Schemas Used in the Course
Class Account Information
SQL Environments Available in the Course
Workshops, Demo Scripts, and Code Example Scripts
Appendices in the Course

Introduction to SQL Tuning
SQL Tuning Session
SQL Tuning Strategies
Development Environments: Overview
SQLTXPLAIN (SQLT) Diagnostic Tool

Using Application Tracing Tools
Using the SQL Trace Facility: Overview
Steps Needed Before Tracing
Available Tracing Tools: Overview
The trcsess Utility
Formatting SQL Trace Files: Overview

Understanding Basic Tuning Techniques
Developing Efficient SQL statement
Scripts Used in This Lesson
Table Design
Index Usage
Transformed Index
Data Type Mismatch
NULL usage
Tune the ORDER BY Clause

Optimizer Fundamentals
SQL Statement Representation
SQL Statement Processing
Why Do You Need an Optimizer?
Components of the Optimizer
Query Transformer
Cost-Based Optimizer
Adaptive Query Optimization
Optimizer Features and Oracle Database Releases

Generating and Displaying Execution Plans
Execution Plan?
The EXPLAIN PLAN Command
Plan Table
AUTOTRACE
V$SQL_PLAN View
Automatic Workload Repository
SQL Monitoring

Interpreting Execution Plans and Enhancements
Interpreting a Serial Execution Plan
Adaptive Optimizations

Optimizer: Table and Index Access Paths
Row Source Operations
Main Structures and Access Paths
Full Table Scan
Indexes
Common Observations

Optimizer Join Operations
Join Methods
Join Types

Other Optimizer Operators
SQL operators
Other N-Array Operations
Result Cache operators

Introduction to Optimizer Statistics Concepts
Optimizer Statistics
Types of Optimizer Statistics
Gather and Manage Optimizer Statistics: Overview

Using Bind Variables
Cursor Sharing and Different Literal Values
Cursor Sharing and Bind Variables

SQL Plan Management
Maintaining SQL Performance
SQL Plan Management

Workshops
Workshop 1
Workshop 2
Workshop 3
Workshop 4
Workshop 5
Workshop 6 & 7
Workshop 8
Workshop 9

Oracle Cloud Overview
Introduction to Oracle Cloud & Oracle Cloud Services
Cloud Deployment Models
Evolving from On-premises to Exadata Express
What is in Exadata Express?
Exadata Express for Users & Developers
Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service
Getting Started with Exadata Express
Service Console & Web Access through Service Console