Over a month after SQL Server 2019 became generally available, Microsoft has now shined light on some more aspects of the improved machine learning capabilities offered with this release.

But it was SQL Server’s new machine learning tools that grabbed my attention. Machine learning remains one of Microsoft’s big themes for 2017, and it’s an important segment of SQL Server 2017.

Microsoft has expanded the data-analysis offerings on its Azure cloud, offering a machine learning service to help organizations derive more insight from mountains of unstructured data.