Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server : Microsoft SQL Server Setup

Microsoft SQL Server is an application used to create computer databases for the Microsoft Windows family of server operating systems. Microsoft SQL Server provides an environment used to generate databases that can be accessed from workstations, the Internet, or other media such as a personal digital assistant (PDA). To follow our lessons, you must have access to a computer in which Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is installed. To start, you must have a computer that runs an appropriate operating system. If you are just learning, you can use a computer that runs Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7 (Professional or Ultimate), Microsoft Windows Server 2003, or Microsoft Windows Server 2008. For our lessons, we will work from Microsoft Windows 7 (Professional and Ultimate) and a server. To get the server together: We purchased a Dell PowerEdge T105 (from the http://www.dell.com/ web site) with an AMD Athlon (tm) Dual Core Processor 4450B 2.30 GHz with 4.00 GB memory and 2 hard drives of 160GB each (it had cost us roughly $320) We ordered a trial copy of Windows Small Business Server 2008 from Microsoft (free) We installed the server operating system (http://www.functionx.com/networking/sbs2008.htm) In the next lesson, we will see how to install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Before installing Microsoft SQL Server 2008, make sure you have installed all service packs on your operating system. Introduction to Security One of the main concerns of a database is security, and this is central to Microsoft SQL Server. Security is exercised at different levels: in the room where the computer(s) is(are) located (the computer(s) that hold(s) the server application (Microsoft SQL Server) and the computer(s) that will use(s) the databases (clients)) and the people who will use all these resources. When it comes to the room that houses the computer on which you will install Microsoft SQL Server, you should make sure the room can be locked at any time and only a few selected people have access to it. For maximum security, you should also put the computer in a locked closet. Creating a User Account in Microsoft Windows XP Start Control Panel Click User Accounts: Click Create New User: Type the name for the new account: Click Next. Make sure the Computer Administrator radio button is selected Click Create Account To assign a password to an account, in the User Account, click the account you created Click Create A Password In the Type A New Password text box, type Password1 and press Tab Type Password1 to confirm and type anything in the last text box: Click Create Password Creating a User Account in Microsoft Windows 7 Start Control Panel Click User Accounts Click User Accounts again Click Manage Accounts Click Advanced Click Advanced again In the left frame, right-click Users and click New User...: Enter the user name, the full name, an optional description, and a password twice: Click Create Click OK Creating an Account in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or 2008 Log in to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or 3008 with an account that can create accounts To create an account in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or 2008, on the taskbar, click Start -> Administrative Tools -> Active Directory Users and Computers. If you receive a message box, click Continue In the left frame, expand the node of the domain if necessary. Right-click Users, position the mouse on New, and click User Enter the first name, the optional initial (you can skip it), the last name, and the user name (the domain name will be different from yours) Click Next Type the password and press Tab Type the password again and accept the options in the check boxes Click Next (in the summary, the domain name will be different from yours) Read the summary in the last page of the wizard and click Finish Practical Learning: Creating Accounts Depending of your operating system, create the following accounts that we will use in our lessons:   Microsoft Windows Server  User (Logon) Name  Windows XP-7 Password  First Name Initials Last Name Full Name Patricia H Katts  pkatts  Patricia H Katts Password1 Orlando  Perez operez  Orlando Perez Password1  Gertrude  D Monay gdmonay  Gertrude Danielle Monay  Password1 Raymond Kouma rkouma  Ramond A Kouma  Password1 After creating the accounts, Click Close Click Start -> Switch User One after the other, log in as each of the above user accounts and provide the password as Password1 When asked to provide the new password, type one you like, otherwise, use P@ssword1 Re-log in to the computer or server using the Administrator account

 

Security Principals A security principal is a person or an object that needs access to a database. The security principal can be considered as one entity or as a group of entities: This means that a security principal can be considered as a lone entity or as  member of a group. For example, a person who accesses a database can be considered an entity. A group of people who perform the same job and have been give the same accecss(s) to a database (or to an object of a database) is considered a collection. Creating a Group in Microsoft Windows 7: (We didn't have access to Microsoft Windows XP when writing this lesson) Start Control Panel Click User Accounts Click User Accounts again Click Manage Accounts Click Advanced Click Advanced again In the left frame, right-click Groups and click New Group... Enter the desired name of the group and an optional description You can click Create When creating a group or after creating it, to make it useful, you should (must) add one or more users to it. If you have created a group and had closed the dialog box already, open it using the previous steps. To add a user, click Add... This would open a dialog box. First check the location. If it is not displaying the right computer, click Locations... In the Locations dialog box, if you will access the database locally, select the name of the computer and click OK. In the bottom text box, type the (complete) username of the person you want to add Click Check Names Once the name has been resolved, click OK. You can either add one name at a time or add the other names one after another Creating a Group in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 - 2008: Open the Active Directory Users and Computers  Right-click Users -> New -> Group Type the desired name for the group and check the options of the radio buttons After providing and checking the options, click OK In order to use a group, you should add at least one user to it. To do this, locate the group and double-click it or right-click the group and click Properties When the dialog box opens, click the Members tab Click Add In the bottom text box, enter the (complete) user name of the account Click Check Names When the name has been resolved, click OK You can control the type of access that a security principal can exercise on a machine or a database, based on a level of accecss. There are three levels: Windows, server, and database: Based on the functionality of a security principal, it can be considered as belonging to a collection. To help the operating system identify them, each security principal uses a unique number called a security identifier (SID). Practical Learning: Creating a Group Depending of your operating system, create a group named Clerks Set the Description to Applications Testers Add the operez and the rkouma accounts to it Click Create Creating an Administrator Account To actually install Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you must use a user account that has the ability to install an application. If you are using Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or 7, you should use the Administrator account or create a new account that has administrative rights. The account must also use/have a password. During the installation of Microsoft SQL Server, you must log in, using a username and a password. If you are working in Microsoft Windows XP->7, after the installation, if you want, you can remove the password on the account, but you will not be able to connect to Microsoft SQL Server again. If you want to connect to the server, you will have to use a password again. Creating an Administrator in Microsoft Windows 7 To start, display the [Local Users and Groups (Local)] window In the left frame, click Groups In the right frame, either double-click Administrators or right-click it and click Properties Click Add... Check the contents of the Location. If you are working locally, click Locations. If a dialog box comes up, click Cancel. Select the name of the computer In the bottom text box, type the (complete) user name of the person Click Check Names When the name has been resolved, click OK Creating an Administrator in Microsoft Windows Server 2003-2008 To start, display the Active Directory Users and Computers window You have various options: To add an account to the built-in Administrators group: In the left frame, click BuiltIn In the right frame, either double-click Administrators or right-click it and click Properties To add an account to another group, such as the Domain Admins: In the left frame, click Users In the right-click frame, either double-click Domain Admins Click the Members tab Click Add... In the bottom text box, type the (complete) user name of the person Click Check Names   When the name has been resolved, click OK Practical Learning: Creating an Administrator Depending of your operating system, access the properties of the built-in Administrators account Add the pkatts and the gdmonay accounts to it Click OK Exercises     National Health Care Management Using the Internet, do some research to find out what a health care company does, what services it provides, how it generates revenues, and what types of customers such as company has Make a list of 3 private health care companies in different parts of the country or of the world Metropolitan Area Electric Company Using the internet to find out the names of three different electric companies. Find out what their customers invoices (or the monthly bills they send to customers) look like Using either Microsoft Windows XP-7 or Microsoft Windows Server 2003-2008, create a user (or domain user). The first name is Ibrahima. The last name is Draman. The user name is idraman. The password is Password1. The user must change the password the next time he logs in