SQL Server is far more than a regular database management system. It's a huge ecosystem of different services that work together to provide very complex data platform management tasks. With the addition of numerous features in the version of SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017, the capabilities of the system have enlarged again toward modern ways of working with data such as big data, machine learning and data science. You're about to enter a new world with this book, which will allow you to grasp the data-related tasks from a different point of view and get more insight into your data.