Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

SQL Server Service Broker

SQL Server Service Broker provides a native SQL Server infrastructure that supports asynchronous distributed messaging between database-driven services. Service Broker handles all the hard work of managing coordination among the constructs required for distributed messaging, including transactional delivery and storage, message typing and validation, multithreaded activation and control, event notification, routing, and security.

Service Broker is designed around the basic functions of sending and receiving messages. An application sends messages to a service, which is a name for a set of related tasks. An application receives messages from a queue, which is a view of an internal table. Service Broker guarantees that ...