The SQL Server 2022 Workshop — Lesson 1: SQL Server 2022 Platform and Upgrade Readiness

Learning Objectives

• Review SQL Server 2022 architecture, editions, deployment choices, and upgrade considerations
• Assess compatibility, dependencies, workload characteristics, and modernization objectives
• Establish a baseline for performance, security, availability, and operational requirements

Detailed Topics

• Review SQL Server 2022 architecture: Review SQL Server 2022 architecture, editions, deployment choices, and upgrade considerations
• Assess compatibility: Assess compatibility, dependencies, workload characteristics, and modernization objectives
• Establish a baseline for performance: Establish a baseline for performance, security, availability, and operational requirements

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Create a concise SQL Server 2022 readiness assessment for an existing workload.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

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

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply SQL Server 2022 Platform and Upgrade Readiness in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.