Inside Oracle Database 10g Dynamic Sampling By Alexey Danchenkov
In this article, we will see how Oracle deals with missing and stale object statistics and chooses the best execution plan for any query.
Performance Appraisal of Oracle Data Guard 9i By Veera Swamy Vallabhaneni, Vivek Sharma, and Harshavardhan Vaidya
The authors provide a substantial amount of figures and charts to show which configuration options get the best performance from Oracle Data Guard.