Here’s a story: a team trained a model, and everything worked fine — until their dataset doubled. Suddenly, their R pipeline crawled to a halt. The culprit? Compute context. By default they were running R in local compute, which meant every row had to cross the network. But when they switched to SQL compute context, the same job ran inside the server, next to the data, and performance transformed overnight.
R or T-SQL? One Button Changes Everything
Here’s a story: a team trained a model, and everything worked fine — until their dataset doubled. Suddenly, their R pipeline crawled to a halt. The culprit? Compute context. By default they were running R in local compute, which meant every row had to cross the network. But when they switched to SQL compute context, the same job ran inside the server, next to the data, and performance transformed overnight.