Data Science with SQL Server Quick Start Guide, published by Packt
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Integrate SQL Server with data science
SQL Server only started to fully support data science with its two most recent editions. If you are a professional from both worlds, SQL Server and data science, and interested in using SQL Server and Machine Learning (ML) Services for your projects, then this is the ideal book for you.
This book covers the following exciting features:
- Use the popular programming languages,T-SQL, R, and Python, for data science
- Understand your data with queries and introductory statistics
- Create and enhance the datasets for ML
- Visualize and analyze data using basic and advanced graphs
- Explore ML using unsupervised and supervised models
If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!
All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.
The code will look like the following:
# R version and contributors
R.version.string
contributors()
Following is what you need for this book: SQL Server professionals who want to start with data science, and data scientists who would like to start using SQL Server in their projects will find this book to be useful. Prior exposure to SQL Server will be helpful.
With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-8).
| Chapter | Software required | OS required |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SQL Server 2017 Evaluation Edition or | Windows |
| Developer Edition SQL Server Management Studio | ||
| 2 | Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition | Windows |
| 3-8 | Same as in chapter 1 and 2 | Windows |
We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.
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. Besides projects, he spends about half his time on training and mentoring. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group. He is the main author or co author of many books about databases and SQL Server. The last three books before this one were published by Packt, and their titles were SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide, SQL Server 2017 Integration Services Cookbook, and SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide. Dejan Sarka has also developed many courses and seminars for Microsoft, SolidQ, and Pluralsight.
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