SQL Server 2017 Developer's Guide

Creating scalable solutions

You can use the scalable server resources from the client. You start development in RStudio or R Tools for Visual Studio by setting the execution context to the server. Of course, you must do it with a function from the RevoScaleR package, which is loaded in memory at the beginning of the following R code. The code defines the execution context on SQL Server, in the context of the AdventureWorksDW2014 database. Remember, the dbo.vTargetMail view comes from this database. Also note that the RUser used to connect to SQL Server needs permission to use the sys.sp_execute_external_script procedure. For the sake of simplicity, I just added the RUser database user in the AdventureWorksDW2014 database on my local SQL Server ...