Updating Your Skills to SQL Server 2016 — Lesson 2: Security and Data Protection

Learning Objectives

• Implement Always Encrypted, row-level security, dynamic data masking, and auditing
• Review permissions, authentication, encryption, keys, and separation of duties
• Validate application compatibility and security behavior

Detailed Topics

• Implement Always Encrypted: Implement Always Encrypted, row-level security, dynamic data masking, and auditing
• Review permissions: Review permissions, authentication, encryption, keys, and separation of duties
• Validate application compatibility and security behavior: Validate application compatibility and security behavior

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, users, data, dependencies, permissions, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, development, administration, analysis, or collaboration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, test results, and other useful evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and explain any corrective action.

Hands-On Activity

Apply and test SQL Server 2016 data-protection features.

• Document assumptions, prerequisites, and the planned sequence before starting.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal, boundary, and failure behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, reusable notes, and the next improvement priority.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the business or technical decision that must be made.
• Compare valid implementation approaches and their trade-offs.
• Consider security, privacy, accessibility, performance, support, and operational impact.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, data, permissions, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, ownership, user impact, and business continuity.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected design or configuration is documented and follows approved standards.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, accessibility, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Security and Data Protection in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.