To get the most out of this book

In order to work with SQL Server Machine Learning Services, and to run the code examples found in this book, the following software will be required:

• SQL Server 2016 and/or SQL Server 2017 Developer or Enterprise Edition
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
• R IDE such as R Studio or Visual Studio 2017 with RTVS extension
• Visual Studio 2017 Community edition with the following extensions installed:
  • R Tools for Visual Studio (RTVS)
  • SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
• VisualStudio.com online account

The chapters in this book go through the installation and configuration steps as the software is introduced.