Number of Processors(SQL Query)

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Number of Processors(SQL Query)

Waseem Jaleel

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July 27, 2008 at 8:32 pm

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Please help me if there is any method to retreive using query, the number of processors in a server on which sql server is installled

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004494 More actions · Answer 1

Yes, there is. You can use the xp_msver extended procedure. I'm not sure of the security requirements

exec xp_msver 'ProcessorCount'

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zNick SSC Eights! Points: 842 More actions · Answer 2

/* well, this will work, though it is a little elaborate. it does however provide some other cool info about the processer(s)*/

DECLARE

@nProcessorCountINT

,@vcProcessorModelVARCHAR(5)

,@vcProcessorTypeVARCHAR(30)

,@vcProcessorNameStringVARCHAR(60)

CREATE TABLE #tblStats

(

[Index] INT,

[Name] VARCHAR(200),

Internal_Value VARCHAR(50),

Character_Value VARCHAR(200)

)

INSERT INTO #tblStats

EXEC master.dbo.xp_msver 'ProcessorCount'

INSERT INTO #tblStats

EXEC master.dbo.xp_msver 'ProcessorType'

INSERT INTO #tblStats

EXEC master.dbo.xp_msver 'ProcessorType'

SELECT @nProcessorCount = Internal_Value FROM #tblStats WHERE [Index] = 16

SELECT @vcProcessorModel = Internal_Value FROM #tblStats WHERE [Index] = 18

SELECT @vcProcessorType = Character_Value FROM #tblStats WHERE [Index] = 18

EXEC master.dbo.xp_instance_regreadN'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE',

N'HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0',

N'ProcessorNameString',

@vcProcessorNameString OUTPUT,

N'no_output'

SELECT

@nProcessorCount

,@vcProcessorModel

,@vcProcessorType

,@vcProcessorNameString

DROP TABLE #tblStats

-- let me know if you have any issues

2 Tim 3:16 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4541 More actions · Answer 3

Since MS licenses on actual CPU (and not cores) I needed to find out the actual cpu for our servers. Our sysadmin provided me an executable (attached) that is exactly what I needed. Change the .txt to .exe and you're good-to-go.

Tim White

2 Tim 3:16 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4541 More actions · Answer 4

You can also download this code at http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/articles/eng/2728.htm

Tim White

Waseem Jaleel SSCommitted Points: 1706 More actions · Answer 5

I thank all of you for all the responses, this has been very useful to me, I have finally decided to use the xp_msver, by Gail Shaw. Thank you very much once again.

2 Tim 3:16 SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4541 More actions · Answer 6

Just want to make sure you understand that this is a "core" count and not a true cpu count.

Tim White

Waseem Jaleel SSCommitted Points: 1706 More actions · Answer 7

I understand that it gives the number of cores and not the actual number of physical processors, I believe this is the only option available as I did not see any suggestion which would give the number of physical processors, other than a manual check. I required this as a sql query since i need to run this from a central server on a larger number of servers added as linked servers to the central server. Your replies are enough for me to work on this requirement. Thanks a lot all of you!!

GabyYYZ SSCertifiable Points: 7913 More actions · Answer 8

Try this, it's something I wrote to automate a program that could be optimized on number of processors used:

create procedure num_processors

as

set nocount on

declare @numprocs int

create table #numprocs

(

id int,

colname varchar(128),

IV int,

CV varchar(128)

)

insert #numprocs

exec master..xp_msver

select @numprocs = IV from #numprocs

where colname like '%ProcessorCount%'

drop table #numprocs

return @numprocs

go

Hope it helps. It gets the actual internal processor representation from SQL Server so hopefully it is accurate.

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Orlando Colamatteo SSC Guru Points: 182276 More actions · Answer 9

Waseem Jaleel (7/28/2008)
I thank all of you for all the responses, this has been very useful to me, I have finally decided to use the xp_msver, by Gail Shaw. Thank you very much once again.

I know this is a really old thread but I found it through Google looking for something else so I am confident others will too. xp_msver does not show physical CPU sockets, it shows logical processors.

This will show you the number of physical sockets on your server:

SELECT cpu_count / hyperthread_ratio AS physical_cpu_sockets

FROM sys.dm_os_sys_info ;

Credit: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/kalen_delaney/archive/2007/12/08/hyperthreaded-or-not.aspx

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