So your SQL 2012 is US$6.8K/core which roughly equates to 4 cores = a SQL 2008 Ent
license.
How many DB servers have 4 cores? I wonder if there’s a way now to limit the cores
then that SQL 2012 will use on for e.g. an 8 or 12 core machine.
Will this change by RTM?? I wonder.
(on a side note – way back when ’hyper threading’ originally came out, when 1 CPU
looked liked ’2’ to the O/S, MS wanted to license per visible CPU. Intel & AMD
at the time said if you do that we’ll take the feature outnowadays we call them ’CORES’
and looks like the discussion has come full circle)
Blog Post by: Mick Badran