18 May 2009
Get Started With Using External Activator
In the blog post Announcing Service Broker External Activator , we introduced Service Broker External Activator and showed what benefits a broker user can get from using it. In this article, we'll get you started with using external activator in four Read More...
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01 December 2008
Service Broker Wait Types
SQL server engine keeps track of wait operations (aka wait types ) performed by all its executing threads, either to serialize access to protected structures or to wait for asynchronous events/notifications. Sys.dm_os_wait_stats DMV can be used to get Read More...
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21 November 2008
Announcing Service Broker External Activator
The Microsoft SQL Server Service Broker External Activator (EA) is distributed in the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack. It is an extension of the internal activation feature and lets you move the logic for receiving and processing service broker Read More...
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26 August 2008
Securing a dialog with certificates
This sample shows how to set up a secure dialog using certificates. Service broker will always have a level of security at the transport level, which may include encryption, but this is at a server level of granularity. It does not secure conversations Read More...
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12 August 2008
Fast data push tuning
A common use of service broker is the "data push" scenario in which messages are asynchronously sent to a destination such as a data warehouse for storage and processing with minimal impact on the source application. Two frequent concerns are whether Read More...
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25 July 2008
Reusing dialogs with a dialog pool
As noted in various Service Broker sources, it is often advantageous to minimize the overhead of creating dialogs to send messages on. This blog shows how to create a shared pool of dialogs to be able to reuse dialogs instead of creating new ones. The Read More...
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14 July 2008
Using multiple routes in Service Broker
One of main Service Broker components is routing. Whenever you want your messages to leave the database they originate in, you need to provide routes. Setting up routes may become complicated, so if you're making your first steps in Service Broker area, Read More...
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09 July 2008
Real Time Data Integration with Service Broker and Other SQL Techniques
This article discusses how to use various SQL technologies to accomplish real time data integration between SQL Server instances. It provides a set of sample code to help users with their development. The document focuses on the usage of each technology Read More...
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30 June 2008
Poison Message Handling
Service broker provides automatic poison message detection, which disables the service queue upon five consecutive transaction rollbacks in trying to receive messages from the queue. However, an application should not rely on this feature for normal processing. Read More...
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26 June 2008
Service Broker Periodic Tasks
SSB receives notifications every 5 seconds from the SQL engine's timer framework. SSB in turn counts these notifications and performs its various periodic maintenance tasks at different intervals. Tasks performed every notification: 1. Internal activation Read More...
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10 June 2008
A simple secure dialog with transport certificates
If you want to have a broker dialog between server instances, you have to be concerned with having a secure network connection, which in service broker terminology is called transport security. An effective way to accomplish this is using certificates Read More...
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31 May 2008
Welcome to the Service Broker Blog
Service Broker is a part of the SQL Server that allows secure, transactional messaging between databases that can be within the same server instance or in different ones. The feature first appeared in SQL Server 2005, and has a growing clientele already Read More...
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