SQL Server 2008 and 2005 offer the Service Broker feature. In this tip we will go through the different components of service broker and step by step on how to setup Service Broker for a single database.
2009-09-23
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SQL Server Service Broker provides support for building asynchronous messaging and queuing applications with the SQL Server Database Engine. This paper describes a large scale customer scenario and the techniques employed in scaling Service Broker to process tens of thousands of messages per second on one server.
2009-09-11
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Securely sending Service Broker messages from instance to instance requires a somewhat complex configuration. This tip walks you through the proper methods
2009-07-17
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The previous installment of the 'SQL Server 2005 Express Edition' series discussed using transactions to protect the integrity and consistency of Service Broker-based communication. Depending on the type of issue encountered by our code, the outcome might be different from expected. This article demonstrates a more robust approach to error handling and applies it to our target.
2009-03-18
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This article provides an overview and presents an example illustrating the role of transactions in processing Service Broker dialogs usage.
2009-02-26
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The previous installment of "SQL Server 2005 Express Edition" discussed Service Broker's internal activation, which allows you to automate communication between initiator and target. Unfortunately, there are some caveats related to its security context. This article describes their specifics and provides a couple of methods to eliminate any undesirable side effects they introduce.
2009-02-19
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Recent installments of our series have discussed configuring Service Broker full dialog level security, which required a mechanism to facilitate the exchange of certificates between communication partners. In this article, we will present an alternative approach, which eliminates this requirement by relying on anonymous dialog security.
2009-01-14
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A technical paper from the SQLCAT team on moving databases with service broker applications.
2008-08-21
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This article is a brief overview of Service Broker's core features, which are available (in a somewhat limited capacity) in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. The next installment will describe a sample application illustrating its operations and discuss its management, security, and routing characteristics.
2008-07-17
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This paper introduces Service Broker, a new feature in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. With Service Broker, internal or external processes can send and receive guaranteed, asynchronous messaging by using extensions to Transact-SQL.
2008-06-06
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