Using SQL Server R for any kind of DBA task, as we have seen here, it is not always hardcore statistics or predictive analytics; we might also be some simple statistical understanding underlying the connection and relationships between the attribute's queries, gathered statistics, and indexes. Prognosing and predicting, for example, information from execution plans in order to prepare a better understanding of the query of cover missing index, is a crucial point. Parameter sniffing or a cardinality estimator would also be a great task to tackle along the usual statistics.
But we have seen that predicting events that are usually only monitored can be a huge advantage for a DBA and a very welcome feature for core systems.
With R integration into SQL Server, such daily, weekly, or monthly tasks can be automated to different, before not uses yet, extent. And as such,...