Using Power BI and R Tutorial here: Run R scripts in Power BI Desktop
The only twist that I want to add is an idea on how to enable users without admin access to run R code. This can be achieved by storing a portable r installation on a mountable file storage.
R Download the necessary R installation in order to be able to execute R code.
R Portable Portable R Studio Please note that running RStudio in the cloud gets really slow.
Columnstore A columnstore index can provide a very high level of data compression, typically by 10 times, to significantly reduce your data warehouse storage cost. For analytics, a columnstore index offers an order of magnitude better performance than a btree index. Columnstore indexes are the preferred data storage format for data warehousing and analytics workloads. Starting with SQL Server 2016 (13.x), you can use columnstore indexes for real-time analytics on your operational workload.
