Updated: May 1, 2025 (May 1, 2025)

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Hyper-threading

A hardware performance enhancement technology that allows each physical core within a physical processor to execute two (rather than one) independent instruction streams simultaneously; can be a factor under SQL Server’s Per Core License Model.

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