[dba-Tech] Duo-core processors

Dual core processors are seen by the OS as 1 CPU

> This may be stupid questions (or in the immortal words of The Simpsons,
> there are no stupid questions, only stupid people). But I digress.
>
> Is a duo-core CPU viewed by such processes as SQL 2005 as 2 CPUs? And
> assuming that it is, and further assuming that there are 2GB of RAM
> aboard, how does the system decide which vcpu gets how much RAM? In
> particular, I was thinking about parallel queries in SQL.
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
>
>
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