Microsoft's newest version of its database may cost you more if you deploy it on machines with more than four physical cores in each processor. That's one of the findings of the independent analysis ...

So we have two processor licenses for SQL Server 05. I want the same for 08, but times are tough right now at work. However, we could MAYBE swing a 1 processor license. Maye get a quad core processor ...

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.