June 2008 - Posts

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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Filed under: periodic tasks, background tasks

 

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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Filed under: security, dialogs, endpoints