Summary

In this chapter, you learned the basics of the Python language. You can use it together with R or instead of R for advanced analyses of SQL Server and other data. You learned about the most popular Python libraries used for data science applications. Now, it is up to you to select the language of your choice.

In the next chapter, you will learn about graph support in SQL Server 2017.

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