Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 Unleashed

Chapter 48. SQL Server Service Broker

IN THIS CHAPTER

• What’s New in Service Broker

• Understanding Distributed Messaging

• Designing an Example System

• Understanding Service Broker Constructs

• Service Broker Routing and Security

• Related System Catalogs

This chapter takes a look at a totally new feature of SQL Server 2005: SQL Server Service Broker. 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. ...