Enterprise Core-based Licensing for SQL2012

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Question 2: Not taking account the disk or RAID layout of the server, would you chose to have more cores OR a faster processor. Assume this is a mixed use server, some data warehouse, some OLTP.
Thank you,
Denka

>We have a 16 core SQL Server 2012 Enterprise License for a server.
>Question 1: When installed, does this mean that SQL will only use 16 physical server cores even if
the server has 24 >cores in total?
No. If you have 16 core licenses, you are not permitted to run SQL on a sever with more than 16 cores.
There is no technical limitation; you will just be out of compliance.
>,
would you chose to have more cores OR a faster processor.
Always favor faster cores. SQL is licensed by the core, no matter how fast, and fast cores benefit
all workloads. But more cores only help if you have many concurrent users or parallel queries.
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