[Post Event] Microsoft Data Amp—where data gets to work meet-up

Together with ITCamp community from Cluj-Napoca we joined our forces for 2 hours. We wanted to find more about how we can transform our business with our data -Microsoft Data Amp.

A lot of new stuff were announced during the live streaming that can be viewed on https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/data-amp.

If you ask me, the game changers are SQL Server 2017 that runs on Linux and the fully integration between SQL Server and other stacks like R. Nowadays you don't need to move your data outside the Database engine to execute ML. You have the ML full support direct in the database engine.

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