May 31, 2006 at 9:13 am
How would a 4xdual chip system (4 units of silicon - 8 logical processors) be used by the OS and SQL Server 2005? I understand that licensing would be for 4 processors - not eight. But, will the OS and SQL Server see 8 processors just like hyper threading will? Also, with SQL Server 2005 standard having a 4 processor limit, how will this be treated?
May 31, 2006 at 10:47 am
I found what I needed. From the Microsoft website...
"...Microsoft SQL Server Standard edition will run on a four-processor server with dual-core processors, utilizing all cores on the processors, without requiring more than four licenses."
June 1, 2006 at 11:09 am
A Microsoft evangelist recently mentioned in a meeting that licensing is on a per-socket basis, not per processor, so you should run into no licensing issues as long as you have a license for each socket.
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