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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

You're reading from SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

Product type Book

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788476195

Pages 816 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Database Programming

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

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Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction to SQL Server 2017

2. Review of SQL Server Features for Developers

3. SQL Server Tools

4. Transact-SQL and Database Engine Enhancements

5. JSON Support in SQL Server

6. Stretch Database

7. Temporal Tables

8. Tightening Security

9. Query Store

10. Columnstore Indexes

11. Introducing SQL Server In-Memory OLTP

12. In-Memory OLTP Improvements in SQL Server 2017

13. Supporting R in SQL Server

14. Data Exploration and Predictive Modeling with R

15. Introducing Python

16. Graph Database

17. Containers and SQL on Linux

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Index

Starting with Python

In order to start working with Python and R, you need to do some installation. General SQL Server setup is not in the scope of this book. However, if you are completely new to Python (and R), it might be helpful to give you a very quick overview of the installation.

Once you prepare the environment, you will start immediately with Python programming. Anyway, time to get our hands dirty. In this section, you will learn about:

Installing Python
A quick demo of Python capabilities
Python core syntax elements
Python variables
Basic data structures in Python
Branching and looping
Classes and objects

Installing machine learning services and client tools

With SQL Server 2017, you get everything you need from Microsoft. There is no need to download any additional open source interpreter and/or client tool besides SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), and Visual Studio (VS), unless you wish so. You just start SQL Server setup, and then from the Feature Selection page select...

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