A. With SQL 6.5 and below a single query will only ever use a single processor, whereas in SQL 7 it will parellise queries if it thinks that will make it run faster.
Usually processor isn't the bottleneck on SQL systems - it is usually the disk subsystem. But as a rule of thumb if you have few users/processes then go for faster processors, and if you have lots of users then go for more processors.
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