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Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Shashikant Shakya
Shashikant Shakya
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Shashikant Shakya

Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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Machine Learning Services

Machine Learning Services was first introduced in SQL Server 2016 (on-premises) as R Services. Machine learning is now available in Azure SQL Managed Instance. It's in preview at the time of writing.

Machine Learning Services provides machine learning capabilities for Azure SQL Managed Instance and allows in-database R and Python scripts to be run for high-performance predictive analytics. Running in-database R and Python scripts uses the data in the managed instance instead of pulling the data over the network from a different source. In the absence of Machine Learning Services, you would have to set up R and Python and get the data from a remote data source for the analysis.

Machine Learning Services makes it possible to run R and Python scripts in stored procedures or T-SQL statements.

R is a programming language that's extensively used for data analysis, machine learning, and predictive analytics. R packages provide out-of-the-box methods...

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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Shashikant Shakya

Shashikant Shakya is a passionate technologist with decades of experience in the sphere of databases. He works for Microsoft as a senior support engineer. In his day job, he works on Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Apart from his work, he is a regular speaker at the SQLBangalore community group.
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