Message Type Validation

Service Broker Part 2: Why Service Broker

The second part of this series focuses on the advantages of Service Broker over other messaged-based technologies to introduce asynchronous message processing into your database applications.

Service Broken Validation

New Online Course: SQL Server Service Broker for Developers and DBAs

I'd love to be running Service Broker classes more often. Service Broker is one of the most powerful, yet least understood technologies in SQL Server. Many of our enterprise...

Service Broker Part 1: Service Broker Basics

This article covers SQL Server 2008 Service Broker, an asynchronous messaging framework that is directly integrated within the relational engine of SQL Server. The series will provides you with the basics about implementing Service Broker applications and how you can transparently scale them out to support any required workload.

Creating Queues

Service Broker Message Types

Service Broker Error Handling

How to handle errors raised during Service Broker Queue Processing.

Configuring Service Broker Architecture

Learn how to configure technically reliable, consistent, robust, efficient, asynchronous message queuing and processing mechanism to start developing highly available, scalable applications based upon the service–oriented architecture.

In Praise of Service Broker

Phil Factor on one of SQL Server's unsung and underused workhorses.