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SQL Server 2005 – Service Broker

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Broker helps developers build scalable, secure database applications. This new technology, a part of the Database Engine, provides a message-based communication platform that enables independent application components to perform as a functioning whole. Service Broker includes infrastructure for asynchronous programming that can be used for applications within a single database or a single instance as well as for distributed applications.

Service Broker InfoCenters

InfoCenters are navigation topics in the SQL Server 2005 Books Online that link to the information that is most important for people working with Service Broker in different roles.

•	Roles and InfoCenters

•	Service Broker Administrator InfoCenter

•	Service Broker Architect InfoCenter

•	Service Broker Developer InfoCenter

Getting Started

Find Service Broker overviews, system requirements, installation instructions, and more.

•	New Service Broker

•	Introducing Service Broker

•	An Introduction to Service Broker

•	An Overview of SQL Server 2005 for the DBA

•	What's New in SQL Server Agent

Planning and Architecture

Use these articles and whitepapers to better understand Service Broker and plan to use it to implement asynchronous messaging for applications.

•	Service Broker Architecture

•	Service Broker Routing and Networking

•	International Considerations for Service Broker

•	Service Broker Scalability

Development

Find the information developers require to build asynchronous message queues using Service Broker, and enabling their applications to use the Service Broker messaging services.

•	Building Applications with Service Broker

•	Service Broker Programming

•	Samples and Sample Databases

•	SQL Server Developer Center on MSDN

Deployment

Plan for the deployment of your SQL Server 2005 databases and messaging applications.

•	Managing Service Broker Applications

Security and Protection

Help protect your Service Broker applications from malicious attacks and improve the security of your messaging systems.

•	Security Considerations for Service Broker

•	SQL Server Security Center

Operations

Learn about SQL Server 2005 Service Broker administration and operations tasks such as backup/restore, managing message queues, message routing, and monitoring for performance and system heath.

•	Administering Service Broker

•	Troubleshooting Service Broker

Technical Reference

Find the tools, language, and administration programming reference documentation for SQL Server 2005 Service Broker.

•	SQL Server 2005 Tools and Utilities Reference

•	Transact-SQL Reference

Toolbox

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SQL Server 2000 Notification Services Tools

•	SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor
•	SQL Server 2005 Books Online
•	SQL Server 2005 Samples

Search Links

•	Search SQL Server Newsgroups

•	Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base

For More Information

Can’t find what you are looking for? Explore the resources on:

•	SQL Server 2005 Support Center on the Microsoft Help and Support site

•	SQL Server Developer Center on MSDN

•	SQL Server Product Site

•	SQL Server 2005 Technical Documentation Library

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