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mvanwyk
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99 Posts

Posted - 2007-03-12 : 07:26:06
Hi there SQL team trying to licence SQL 2005 loaded on to a
HP DL 380 Dual DC Xeon 2.33GHz

Dual means 2 CPU's on this server or is it one?

snSQL
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1837 Posts

Posted - 2007-03-12 : 11:30:27
SQL Server is licensed by physical CPUs, so you need one licence per CPU, but a dual core CPU is still one CPU, so you only need one license per dual core CPU.
See http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/multicore.mspx
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