Review: SQL Server 2017 adds Python, graph processing and runs on Linux Integration of Python for data science, graph processing for NoSQL-like functionality, and it runs on Linux as well as Windows.

The Traditional Role of Python Just as open-source development revolutionized SQL, it also rejuvenated programming languages that work with data.

Microsoft delivers this via IntelliCode, a feature of its integrated development environment (IDE) Visual Studio, which supports C#, C++, Java, Python, SQL Server, TypeScript and JavaScript, and XAML.

“By combining both R and Python in SQL Server, we are facilitating the expansion of data science across the enterprise,” said Joseph Sirosh, vice president of Microsoft’s Data Group. Anaconda CEO ...