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SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R

By : Julie Koesmarno, Tomaž Kaštrun
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SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R

By: Julie Koesmarno, Tomaž Kaštrun

Overview of this book

R Services was one of the most anticipated features in SQL Server 2016, improved significantly and rebranded as SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services. Prior to SQL Server 2016, many developers and data scientists were already using R to connect to SQL Server in siloed environments that left a lot to be desired, in order to do additional data analysis, superseding SSAS Data Mining or additional CLR programming functions. With R integrated within SQL Server 2017, these developers and data scientists can now benefit from its integrated, effective, efficient, and more streamlined analytics environment. This book gives you foundational knowledge and insights to help you understand SQL Server 2017 Machine Learning Services with R. First and foremost, the book provides practical examples on how to implement, use, and understand SQL Server and R integration in corporate environments, and also provides explanations and underlying motivations. It covers installing Machine Learning Services;maintaining, deploying, and managing code;and monitoring your services. Delving more deeply into predictive modeling and the RevoScaleR package, this book also provides insights into operationalizing code and exploring and visualizing data. To complete the journey, this book covers the new features in SQL Server 2017 and how they are compatible with R, amplifying their combined power.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Security

After configuring the database and any other additional settings used in your ecosystem, you will want to think about security, in terms of who will have access to run sp_execute_external_script.

You can directly create security settings on the external procedure. In this case, you will need to add database permissions to execute external script to the user.

A simple SQL login will look like this:

USE [master]
GO
CREATE LOGIN [RR1] WITH PASSWORD=N'Read!2$17', DEFAULT_DATABASE=[SQLR], CHECK_EXPIRATION=ON, CHECK_POLICY=ON
GO
ALTER SERVER ROLE [sysadmin] ADD MEMBER [RR1]
GO
CREATE DATABASE SQLR;
GO
    
USE [SQLR]
GO
CREATE USER [RR1] FOR LOGIN [RR1]
GO
USE [SQLR]
GO
ALTER USER [RR1] WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA=[dbo]
GO

And now, let's start the external procedure:

    
EXECUTE AS USER = 'RR1';
GO
    
EXEC sp_execute_external_script
      @language = N&apos...