As I mentioned above, the SQL server service and SQL server agent is running under same account, I observed from the SQL server error log that the SQL server SPN...

Yes, the account is sysadmin on the instance.

Sorry, i observe that was mentioned in the reply.

Just wanted to know if the license will be based on cores when hyper threading is on ?

Thank you very much. This cleared my doubt. The server was migrated to VM and physical was decommissioned.

Thanks a ton for the response. I was checking out if it is feasible solution in order to help an application team without upgrading their dev box from sql 2012...

Thanks Gail..

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