Summary

Data science is a very broad term that includes numerous tasks in regard to data management and processing. In this chapter, we have covered how these individual domains can be addressed with SQL Server and how SQL Server can be used as a data science platform in the enterprise. Although SQL Server is not primarily considered to be a data science tool, there are numerous data science tasks, where in SQL Server offers very mature services such as the importing and cleaning of data, integration with big-data systems, and rich visualizations, either with reporting services or with PowerBI Report Server.

In the next chapter, we'll go deeper into the SQL Server service overview and how all the services relate to individual data science domains and tasks and how you can fully utilize SQL Server in this new field.