Business intelligence

Business intelligence is a huge area of IT and has been a cornerstone of the SQL Server product since at least SQL Server 2005. As the market and technologies in the business intelligence space improve, so must SQL Server. The advent of cloud-based data analysis systems as well as the recent buzz around big data are driving forces for all data platform providers, and Microsoft is no exception here. While there are multiple enhancements in the business intelligence portion of SQL Server 2016, we will be concentrating on the feature that has a wider audience than just data analysts: the R language in SQL Server.

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