Understanding Service Broker Constructs

To introduce the new Service Broker constructs you’ll be using, Figure 49.1 shows the interrelations between the constructs described in the upcoming subsections.

Figure 49.1 Service Broker concepts illustrated.

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Figure 49.1 illustrates the fact that a dialog is a conversation between two services. These services exchange typed (or untyped) messages by sending them to queues according to the rules of a contract. Each service can have a service program activated by Service Broker to receive messages from a queue. Every conversation belongs to a conversation group. Messages are always sent with respect to ...

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