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Demystifying SQL Server Licensing

Name: Demystifying SQL Server Licensing
Uploaded: 2024-10-14T05:00:32+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Short instructional segment in which Mike Austin defines and contrasts physical server hardware (server chassis, physical processor/CPU, physical cores…

14 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Short instructional segment in which Mike Austin defines and contrasts physical server hardware (server chassis, physical processor/CPU, physical cores, hardware threads/hyper-threads) with virtualized constructs (virtual cores/virtual CPUs assigned to databases). The speaker is establishing foundational terminology that will underpin later discussion of SQL Server licensing.

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So you have a physical server, which I think we all know what those are. Those are the hardware. You have a physical processor, so that's the processor in the box, the cpu. You have physical cores. So your processors are broken down into cores. And then you have virtual cores. And so a virtual core is when you virtualize. It's a basically virtual CPU that's assigned to a database. And then you got a hardware thread that's either a physical. Physical core or hyper thread of a physical processor.