SQL Server 2016 SP1 and Azure SQL Database Update

1. Database Update
SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 and Azure SQL Database Update

2. About Me
• Thomas Sykes
• Working with SQL Server since 7.0
• @sqltomato
• sqltomato.com
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3. SQL Server Service Pack 1
• Hugely important service pack brought us a wealth of new features
• On November 16th 2016 Microsoft released the availability of SQL
Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
• This SQL Server 2016 SP1 release includes the addition of many
news features previously available only in Enterprise Edition.

4. SQL Server Service Pack 1

5. SQL Server Service Pack 1
Note: the level of features now available in Express Edition

6. SQL Server Service Pack 1
• In-memory OLTP
• In-memory ColumnStore
• Operational Analytics
• Partitioning
• Compression
• Change data capture
• Database snapshot

7. SQL Server Service Pack 1
• CREATE OR ALTER – For stored procedures, functions, triggers and
views NOT tables
• DBCC CLONEDATABASE - Cloning the schema and metadata, statistics
without the data
• Programmatically identify IFI privilege and identify LPIM to SQL
service account – Using sys.dm_server_services and
sys.dm_os_sys_info respectively

8. Azure SQL Database
• 4TB storage option in Premium P11 and P15 – Significant size increase
as up from 1TB for P15

9. Azure SQL Database

10. Sources
• https://www.sqltomato.com/2016/11/sql-server-2016-sp1-standard-
edition-enterprise-features.html
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sqlreleaseservices/sql-server-
2016-service-pack-1-sp1-released/
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sql-database-4tb-premium-
and-premium-rs-preview/