Monday 12 May 2008

SQL 101 : Service Broker

Quick Facts about Service Broker -

Service Broker is a sql server message queuing system introduced in sql 2005 which provides guaranteed delivery.

Messages can be based in 1 sql instance or go between instances via tcp/ip.

XML is preferred message content.

Service Broker Objects -
  • message type - specifies validation of the xml message
  • contract - defines that a message direction of travel for message types
  • queue - store of messages
  • service - ties contracts & queues together, a wrapper for conversations.
MSDN Service Broker Forums
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=91&SiteID=1
Service Broker vs MSMQ
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2489857&SiteID=1

Enabling Service Broker -
USE MASTER;
GO

ALTER DATABASE databasename SET ENABLE_BROKER;
GO

USE databasename ;
GO

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