To license under Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise 2012 they would license it as 40 (4×10) core licenses. (See the note about “Software Assurance Implications” below).

How will Microsoft's new per-core pricing affect the prices that SQL Server 2012 customers may pay? Directions on Microsoft has done the math.

Hey,I'm running SQL 2000 Standard on a Xeon single processor box. The OS is 2003, which shows me 2 processors in the task manager. My question is, I have a licence to run SQL on 1 processor, does ...