http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-2008-r2-cpu-count/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:25:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-2008-r2-cpu-count/#comment-81083 kccrosser Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:53:41 +0000 #comment-81083 I understood that this would only count as one. Since one socket (processor) has four cores, and SQL Server will only use up to 4 cores, only one socket would be needed for licensing purposes. This area is very confusing in their literature, and their virtualization paper doesn’t necessarily clear it up:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/9/68964284-864d-4a6d-aed9-f2c1f8f23e14/virtualization_whitepaper.doc

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/sql-2008-r2-cpu-count/#comment-81026 leeherr Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:54:12 +0000 #comment-81026 Will SQL 2008 R2 scale to use only 2 cores of a 4 core processor?

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