- Sql server 2012 enterprise edition upgrade#
- Sql server 2012 enterprise edition plus#
- Sql server 2012 enterprise edition windows#
in fairness to the community at large, most DBAs don't ever see a server with more than 20 cores unless they're in a large enterprise environment.
This is also assuming you didn't monkey with processor affinity. "40" and "twice" are assuming HT is enabled if not, half those figures. With the Core edition, you'll see twice as many rows as you have cores. Cores in-use show "VISIBLE ONLINE." If you have more than 20 cores, but the non-core edition, you'll see only 40 rows with that status. Check sys.dm_os_schedulers, in particular the "status" column. You can verify this yourself, the same way I finally discovered it, on a server with more than 20 cores of course.
Sql server 2012 enterprise edition plus#
I'm lucky though - I have a cool boss, plus three teammates and two lead developers that also had no clue about this, backing me up. yeah, we were effectively wasting 40 core licenses. I ran into this the hard way, on a server with 60 cores, running for over a year, and because admittedly I was not paying enough attention. Or be sure you have an unloved teammate you can throw under the bus. documentation about the "Core-licensing" edition is extremely lacking.
Yes, that sucks - so if your boss is itching for a reason to fire you, be sure to point out that yeah. Yes - that means you're wasting a LOT of money. Even if you're paying for core licensing, and paying for more than 20 cores on a server, it's still capped at 20. The non-core edition, as others stated, is intended for Server/CAL licensing. If your host has 40 cores but you never assign 20+ to any guest, don't worry about it. I'm not sure how or why anyone would give a VM more than 20 cores (at that point your host is already a dedicated server most likely), but if so.
Sql server 2012 enterprise edition windows#
Just how many are assigned to the Windows VM. Virtualization side-note: this has nothing to do with cores on the host.
Sql server 2012 enterprise edition upgrade#
As in it takes longer just to get to the Upgrade button in setup, than to actually perform the upgrade when you hit it. The good news: an edition upgrade from non-core to core is utterly painless and very fast. I ran into the specific question "when do I NEED the Core edition, vs. This is not a guess, it's a provable certainty. Short: The regular "Enterprise" (non-"core") edition caps the cores at 20, period. Sorry to necro here, but just in case someone else hits this page with a similar question, and since there's so little documentation about this.
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