Standard/Express edition Faster transaction performance from In-memory OLTP, faster query performance from In-memory ColumnStore, and the ability to combine the two for real-time Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing, also known as Operational Analytics Data warehousing or data mart performance features such as partitioning, compression, change data capture, database snapshot, and the ability to query across structured and unstructured data with a single node of PolyBase The innovative security feature Always Encrypted for encryption at rest and in motion, as well as fine-grained auditing which captures more detailed audit information for your compliance reporting needs. In addition, row- level security and dynamic data masking are being made available to Express edition for the first time

Create or alter STORED PROCEDURES FUNCTIONS TRIGGERS VIEWS just like "drop if exists“ for tables https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlserverstorageengine/2016/11/17/create-or-alter-another-great-language-enhancement-in-sql-server-2016-sp1/

DBCC CLONEDATABASE Creates a new database schema of all the objects, and statistics from the specified source database SQL Server 2014 SP1 SQL Server 2016 SP1 http://www.pontop.dk/single-post/2016/07/12/TSQL-Tuesday-80-I-want-DBCC-CLONEDATABASE-available-on-all-supported-versions-of-SQL-Server

Lock Pages in Memory DMV columns SELECT sql_memory_model, sql_memory_model_desc FROM sys.dm_os_sys_info;

Instant File Initialization DMV columns SELECT instant_file_initialization_enabled FROM sys.dm_server_services;

SQL Server 2016SP1 on Windows Server 2016 SQL Server Tail Of Log Caching on NVDIMM (Non-Volatile Dual In- line Memory Module) https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bobsql/2016/11/08/how-it-works-it-just-runs-faster-non-volatile-memory-sql-server-tail-of-log-caching-on-nvdimm/

References https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2016/11/1 6/sql-server-2016-service-pack-1-generally-available/ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx https://sqlperformance.com/2016/11/sql-server-2016/big-deal-sp1 https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/4574/new-features-in-sql- server-2016-service-pack-1/