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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

Overview of this book

Microsoft SQL Server 2017 is a milestone in Microsoft's data platform timeline, as it brings in the power of R and Python for machine learning and containerization-based deployment on Windows and Linux. This book prepares you for advanced topics by starting with a quick introduction to SQL Server 2017's new features. Then, it introduces you to enhancements in the Transact-SQL language and new database engine capabilities before switching to a different technology: JSON support. You will take a look at the security enhancements and temporal tables. Furthermore, the book focuses on implementing advanced topics, including Query Store, columnstore indexes, and In-Memory OLTP. Toward the end of the book, you'll be introduced to R and how to use the R language with Transact-SQL for data exploration and analysis. You'll also learn to integrate Python code into SQL Server and graph database implementations as well as the deployment options on Linux and SQL Server in containers for development and testing. By the end of this book, you will be armed to design efficient, high-performance database applications without any hassle.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to SQL Server 2017
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned the basics of the R language. You learned data structures in R (especially the most important one, the data frame) and how to do simple data manipulation. Then you saw some of the capabilities of R by creating graphical visualizations and calculating descriptive statistics in order to get a deeper understanding of your data. Finally, you got a comprehensive view of R integration in SQL Server.

The next chapter, continues the story and gives you more in-depth knowledge about some of the most important data mining and machine learning algorithms and tasks.