Learning SQL opens up career opportunities because it’s used by the most common relational database management systems, including Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Access, and Ingres.

Start by learning the fundamentals of SQL and MS SQL Server before jumping into data manipulation skills and conditional logic and data conversion techniques.

Learn about how the ending of support for Microsoft SQL Server is creating new migration challenges.

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.