FORMATMESSAGE statement is enhanced in SQL Server 2016 to accept a msg_string argument. In the previous versions this function was used to form a message from text located in sys.messages
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DECLARE @ExampleMessage VARCHAR(150)
SET @ExampleMessage = FORMATMESSAGE ('SQL Server %s, has some amazing new features and learn
them on %s!', '2016', 'MyTechMantra.com');
SELECT @ExampleMessage;

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