SQL Server 2016 has introduced a very important service for data science with SQL Server and this was the integration of the R language and R scripts into the SQL Server. With the release of SQL Server 2016, this feature was still named R Services, as the R Server was also available as a standalone product or add-on to other programs or frameworks. With SQL Server 2017, Microsoft has added the support for the Python language too, so you can choose from both major languages used in data science.
Neither of the languages are installed by default, so you need to include any of them during the installation, where you can choose the proper environment as a part of Machine Learning Services, which is the new name used ...
