Benefit from SQL VM Resource Provider when self-installing SQL Server on Azure

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In this video, Anna Hoffman gives a brief overview of how you can use an open source package called sqlmlutils to easily connect and add/remove packages to Azure SQL Database. You can find a full example of using R, sqlmlutils, and revoscale in this GitHub repository.