Service Broker for HA and DR

  • Hi Guys,

    I was at an interview for a company that uses the Service Broker for their DR model - the chap wouldn't go into much detail on how or even why, other than stating failover latency.

    So, its piqued my interest - has anyone ever seen this use for the service broker before? Or used it?

    Is there a benefit of the usual logshipping vs mirroring vs whatever

    Cheers

    Alex

    ps. I annoyingly tend to use the terms DA and HA interchangeably. Sorry!

  • Never seen anything like that before. SQL Server already has several HA features and I suspect that using SB for something it wasn't meant for would be a total train wreck.

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • That's extremely weird and would require a hell of a lot of custom development. Sounds like someone wanted to do things the hard way.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • There are very few ways to scale out MSSQL, and by that I mean writes. SSB is one option to handle multi-master write mirroring, where you can't get away with just having a single-master hot/warm (or primary/secondary) setup. Usually queuing/routing/prioritization/etc is better suited up the app stack but SSB can be used as a simple replay mechanic.

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