xsevensinzx (12/14/2015)
Not to side track, but question:Why prove the usefulness of R to the DBA as opposed to a general purpose language like Python that can accomplish the same thing? I only ask because R is a bit more complex and has limited uses for the DBA versus Python than can actually be used by the DBA as a secondary scripting language both inside and outside of Windows that spans across platforms, API's and even database engines?
I feel this awesome blog article you're writing would be targeted to someone like me who works as a data professional in the data science field, but most of us are using Python on the backend where all the data scientist are using R for the deep dives down the road. Both are awesome and useful, but until most of us start picking up 2016, we're still using Python across RDBMS, NoSQL, etc. 😎
Microsoft is investing pretty heavily in R. You can call R functions directly from SQL Server 2016. I'm just focusing where Microsoft does. It's not a knock against Python.
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