

Bringing interactive analytics tooling into the heart of a database is a sensible approach and Microsoft has already started to put its own analytic tools there.īut making that service dependent on an open source project that it doesn’t control is a big step forward for Microsoft. It’s also working with Anaconda to embed its data science tools inside SQL Server. Microsoft’s relationship with Anaconda is intended to go further than Anaconda using R Open and Visual Studio Code.


That interactive nature of Visual Studio Code fits well with Python’s role in Anaconda. Microsoft has written an Anaconda package manager extension for Visual Studio Code, allowing direct download of packages from inside the editor.
