using 20 logical processors based on SQL Server licensing

• cheshirefox

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  August 8, 2012 at 10:59 pm

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  Have a huge SQL server w/ 64 cores. Planning on upgrading to SQL 2012.

  Found this little message in the error log:

  using 20 logical processors based on SQL Server licensing

• cheshirefox

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  August 8, 2012 at 11:07 pm

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  Now I need to go thru the our license process - which we did in March. 🙁

  Really - If you're upgrading to sql 2012, read this:

  http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/archive/2012/04/27/a-cautionary-tale-about-grandfathering-CAL-licenses-in-SQL-Server-2012-Enterprise.aspx