SQL and Python. Excel, with its roots dating back to Lotus-123 and VisiCalc, is the go-to tool for creating data tables. Its familiar tabular format is widely used by professionals in business ...

R and Python already had access SQL Server ... and the Columnstore index can process them in the compressed format, which also speeds backups. SQL 2017's new resumable index operations feature ...

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 ...

developer conference at Microsoft headquarters. "During the VSLive! conference last week, it was brought to my attention that Visual Studio has no support for formatting SQL files. So, I wrote an ...