The SQL Server 2022 Workshop — Lesson 3: Query Intelligence, Security, and Availability Enhancements

Learning Objectives

• Explore SQL Server 2022 query intelligence and performance-acceleration features
• Review security, ledger, encryption, authentication, and governance improvements
• Compare availability, resilience, scalability, and recovery enhancements

Detailed Topics

• Explore SQL Server 2022 query intelligence and performance-acceleration features: Explore SQL Server 2022 query intelligence and performance-acceleration features
• Review security: Review security, ledger, encryption, authentication, and governance improvements
• Compare availability: Compare availability, resilience, scalability, and recovery enhancements

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

Analyze a workload problem and select relevant SQL Server 2022 improvements with justification.

• 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 Query Intelligence, Security, and Availability Enhancements in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.