It's also meant that Mac and Linux development machines have needed to connect to SQL Server ... together, make SQL Server much more robust. R and Python already had access SQL Server, of course ...

Microsoft is introducing other capabilities to SQL Server 2025 to facilitate the development of AI-based applications, including JSON support, a Python driver ... can connect to AI services ...

But Python, in combination with open source libraries like NumPy and Pandas, is undeniably important in the same arena. And now that SQL Server accommodates both languages, Microsoft has made ...