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SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide

You're reading from   SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide Build efficient database applications for your organization with SQL Server 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465344
Length 616 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dejan Sarka Dejan Sarka
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Miloš Radivojević Miloš Radivojević
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William Durkin William Durkin
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to SQL Server 2016 FREE CHAPTER 2. Review of SQL Server Features for Developers 3. SQL Server Tools 4. Transact-SQL Enhancements 5. JSON Support in SQL Server 6. Stretch Database 7. Temporal Tables 8. Tightening the Security 9. Query Store 10. Columnstore Indexes 11. Introducing SQL Server In-Memory OLTP 12. In-Memory OLTP Improvements in SQL Server 2016 13. Supporting R in SQL Server 14. Data Exploration and Predictive Modeling with R in SQL Server

Chapter 13. Supporting R in SQL Server

SQL Server R Services combines the power and flexibility of the open source R language with enterprise-level tools for data storage and management, workflow development, and reporting and visualization. This chapter introduces R Services and the R language. R is developing quite fast, so it is worth mentioning that the R version used in this book is 3.2.2 (2015-08-14).

In the first section, you will learn about the free version of the R language and engine. You will also become familiar with the basic concepts of programming in R.

When developing an advanced analytical solution, you spend the vast majority of time with data. Typically, data is not in a shape useful for statistical and other algorithms. Data preparation is not really glorious but is an essential part of analytical projects. You will learn how to create a new or use an existing dataset and learn about basic data manipulation with R in the second section of this chapter.

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