What are SQL Server Machine Learning Services?

In a previous article, we have discussed about what Machine Learning is and saw some of its applications. Today, we continue this series of articles, dedicated to Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI), by discussing what SQL Server Machine Learning Services are, and how you can use them, for efficiently implementing high-quality Data Science projects in SQL Server. SQL Server Machine Learning Services, were originally released with SQL Server 2016, known as "R Services", with support for the R language. Later on, with the release of SQL Server 2017, one of its most significant features, was the enhanced support for Machine Learning which provided support for both R and Python programming languages. In this release of SQL Server, "R Services" were renamed to "Machine Learning Services".