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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/07/sql-server-rc1.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>SQL Server 2017, the next major release of the SQL Server database, has been available as a community preview for around 8 months, but now the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/07/17/first-release-candidate-of-sql-server-2017-now-available/" target="_blank">first full-featured release candidate is available for public preview</a>. For those looking to do data science with data in SQL Server, there are a number of new features compared to SQL Server 2017 which might be of interest: </p>
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<li>SQL Server 2017 will be <a rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-overview" target="_blank">supported on Linux</a>, specifically on Red Hat, SUSE, and Ubuntu (as well as within a Docker container). You can read some of the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/17/how-microsoft-brought-sql-server-to-linux/" target="_blank">backstory on how SQL Server came to Linux here</a>.</li>
<li>The new <a rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/advanced-analytics/what-s-new-in-sql-server-machine-learning-services" target="_blank">SQL Server Machine Learning Services</a> will provide in-database analytics in both the R and — new to SQL Server 2017 — <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/04/19/python-in-sql-server-2017-enhanced-in-database-machine-learning/" target="_blank">Python</a> languages.</li>
<li>There are several improvements to the in-database R integration (previously known as &quot;R Services&quot; in SQL Server 2016). These includes a <a rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/advanced-analytics/r/r-package-management-for-sql-server-r-services" target="_blank">new package management</a> system, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/advanced-analytics/sql-native-scoring" target="_blank">real-time in-database scoring</a> of predictive models, and an updated R engine.</li>
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<p>SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 1 is <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2017#resources" target="_blank">available for download now</a>. For more details on these and other new features in this release, check out the link below.</p>
<p>SQL Server Blog: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/05/17/sql-server-2017-ctp-2-1-now-available/" target="_blank">SQL Server 2017 CTP 2.1 now available</a></p>
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