SQL Server Licensing for a quad CPU server, a mystery?
Microsoft Licensing methods for SQL Server is always a mystery!
Though visiting HOWTOBUY says what type of license choose but nothing much to understand. Scalable link explains bit more than that page. Still I have to search for a quest on how many processor licenses should we purchase for a 2 QUAD CPU server.
Eventually I have found that on the purchase of quad-core server that has a 2 quad-core CPU, then you'd buy 2 licenses for 2 CPU, not four. (The CPU might have four processing cores, but there's just one socket on the motherboard. So for SQL Server, you'd license a single CPU.)