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Data Science with SQL Server Quick Start Guide

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Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789537123

Pages 206 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Dejan Sarka

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Writing Queries with T-SQL

2. Introducing R

3. Getting Familiar with Python

4. Data Overview

5. Data Preparation

6. Intermediate Statistics and Graphs

7. Unsupervised Machine Learning

8. Supervised Machine Learning

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Index

Installing ML services (In-Database) packages

Because of security, you cannot just call the install.packages() R function from the sys.sp_exacute_external_script system procedure on the server side. There are many other ways to do it. You can find the complete list of options for installing R packages in the article Install new R packages on SQL Server at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/advanced-analytics/r/install-additional-r-packages-on-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017. I will just show one option here, the one I am using when writing this book. I have my SQL Server installed on a virtual machine, and I can enable a web connection for the machine. Then the process of installing an additional R package is simple. You just need to run the R console, R.exe, from the ML Services (In-Database) installation, which is located in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL14.MSSQLSERVER\R_SERVICES\bin folder for the default instance installation. You need to run R.exe as an administrator...

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Authors (1)

Dejan Sarka

Dejan Sarka, MCT and Microsoft Data Platform MVP, is an independent trainer and consultant who focuses on the development of database and business intelligence applications. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group.

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