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1. What is SQL Server Machine Learning Services?
2. What were the challenges before the introduction of Machine Learning Services?
3. What is the role of the SQL Server Extensibility Framework in executing Python or R code with Machine Learning Services?
4. Which products have Machine Learning Services available?
5. What is the purpose of the Launchpad service in SQL Server Machine Learning Services?
6. How do you give SQL Server’s Launchpad service access to folders where you have downloaded external language DLLs or folders that need to be accessed by scripts?
7. Why would you need external languages with Power BI?
8. How do you call a stored procedure in DirectQuery mode in Power BI?
9. How is the SQL Server machine learning model table used in the examples shown in this chapter?
10. Why do you need to use OPENROWSET to execute a stored procedure? Wouldn’t it be enough to use EXEC?
11. What are the benefits of running...