Posted on: 11/11/2013 2:44:24 AM | Views : 810

Here is the quote from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc645993.aspx
"Limited to lesser of 1 Socket or 4 cores"
My system runs on Windows 7 Ultimate with Intel i5 -480M (2-core, 4-thread), 8G RAM.  So I thought I will get full utilization even using SQL express. So I run a simple C# application  against this SQL express's database. When I look at task manager, SQL's CPU indicates  around 25%. That's is what I expected. Is it my application problem. So I set up another system (Windows 2012 with SQL 2012 Standard version runs on Intel Xeon X32204 (4-core). I run the same applicat ...

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