The headliner is an big bump in performance for the SQL engine and better coverage of ANSI specs, while enhancements to the Python API will bring joy to data scientists everywhere. In 10 short years, ...

R and Python already had access SQL Server, of course, but only if running externally, and thus transferring data queried from the SQL Server to the machine running the code. Running the code ...

Microsoft also announced the public preview of the new open-source Python driver for SQL Server, which is a fully open-source Python solution for connecting to SQL Server. Microsoft also announced ...

But Python, in combination with open source libraries like NumPy and Pandas, is undeniably important in the same arena. And now that SQL Server accommodates both languages, Microsoft has made ...