Oracle SQL Tuning

Hi,
Can somebody explain me about the basics of tuning or any good resource online for absolute beginners.
Concepts of Explain Plan, Hints, indexes etc...
I ve come across some terminolgy like,
Driving table,
The order of the table in the from clause
The order of the joins in the where clause.
When and where to use hints.
which one is a candidate for an hint
Explain plan explained, like nested loops, hash join, merge, etc,,, with some examples on how it works...
How to judge on the costs section of the explain plan...
Any help is appreciated...
Thanks!

That's a very broad question. I've always found the online Oracle documentation to be the best available answer to most questions and doubts that I come across.
Regarding your particular doubts, I'd say you should take a look at the concepts book, the SQL reference and maybe the Performance Tuning guide for info on explain plans and the sort.
Concepts - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10713.pdf
SQL - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10592.pdf
Performance Tuning - http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e10821.pdf
The developer book may also be very useful as well as the PL/SQL reference. Just take a look at below for the complete list of books:
http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/portal.portal_db?selected=4&frame=#essentials
It will take you a lot of effort and patience to go through those but it certainly pays off.

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