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Luca Zavarella
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Luca Zavarella

Luca Zavarella has a rich background as an Azure Data Scientist Associate and Microsoft MVP, with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of L'Aquila. His decade-plus experience spans the Microsoft Data Platform, starting as a T-SQL developer on SQL Server 2000 and 2005, then mastering the full suite of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), and advancing into data warehousing. Recently, his focus has shifted to advanced analytics, data science, and AI, contributing to the community as a speaker and blogger, especially on Medium. Currently, he leads the Data & AI division at iCubed, and he also holds an honors degree in classical piano from the "Alfredo Casella" Conservatory in L'Aquila.
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Installing Python and R custom runtimes for SQL Server

In Chapter 8, Logging Data from Power BI to External Sources, you installed an instance of SQL Server 2019 to test its ability to use Python and R to log information from Power BI. Our goal now is to install the latest Python and R engines on SQL Server 2019. As mentioned in the previous section, we need to have at least SQL Server 2019 with at least CU3 installed. We assume that you have system administrator privileges on your machine. So, let’s take a look at how to do it.

Updating SQL Server

Referring to the SQL Server 2019 builds table (available at https://bit.ly/sqlserver2019-build-numbers), you can see that the minimum allowed version corresponding to CU3 is 15.0.4023.6:

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Figure 18.2: Minimum SQL Server build version number to install

Therefore, the first step is to check which SQL Server build version you have installed. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Open the SQL Server Management...
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Luca Zavarella

Luca Zavarella has a rich background as an Azure Data Scientist Associate and Microsoft MVP, with a Computer Engineering degree from the University of L'Aquila. His decade-plus experience spans the Microsoft Data Platform, starting as a T-SQL developer on SQL Server 2000 and 2005, then mastering the full suite of Microsoft Business Intelligence tools (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), and advancing into data warehousing. Recently, his focus has shifted to advanced analytics, data science, and AI, contributing to the community as a speaker and blogger, especially on Medium. Currently, he leads the Data & AI division at iCubed, and he also holds an honors degree in classical piano from the "Alfredo Casella" Conservatory in L'Aquila.
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