Reasons to upgrade SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2016?

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SQL Server 20016 or not

Hello, the company is moving our production database to new server and I was given the task of looking at SQL 2016 as a possible upgrade path from SQL 2008R2. We have some folks here in the do not upgrade until SP1 is out. So my question is has anyone seen problems with SQL 2016 that would need watching? Is there a way to check old code to see if there is a problem. Yes we would test our code on a dev system but you always miss one. I was thinking of something like SQLCop but …