The Rational Guide to SQL Server 2005 Service Broker (Rational Guides) (Paperback)

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"You might have to wait in line for this one, but it's worth waiting for." -- - Bob Beauchemin, Director of Developer Skills, SQLskills

Product Description

The Service Broker messaging feature of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 makes it easy to build a whole new class of reliable, asynchronous, and distributed database applications by offering unprecedented levels of reliability, performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.

In The Rational Guide To SQL Server 2005 Service Broker, Roger Wolter, Microsoft’s Program Manager for SQL Server Service Broker, clearly explains the architecture, functionality, unique features, and powerful capabilities of the new SQL Server 2005 Service Broker technology. This book is a valuable resource for both database programmers who want to write Service Broker applications and database administrators who have to support these applications.

This book takes a rational, no-nonsense approach in a compact guide - only 224 pages. The book is written to give you the basics…fast!

Technical accuracy is assured by Dirk Myers, Documentation Manager, SQL Server User Education, Microsoft Corporation.

Includes FREE Bonus Materials:

• Bonus Chapter: "Troubleshooting and Administration"
• Sample code for the examples in the book

Product Details

• Paperback: 223 pages
• Publisher: Rational Press (June 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932577270
• ISBN-13: 978-1932577273
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #591,282 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This is item 17 in The Rational Guide Series.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Written by the Program Manager for the Product, August 8, 2006

By	John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Service Broker is part of Microsoft's continuing effort to expand into the enterprise software arena. It works in conjunction with SQL Server 2005 and provides for the asynchronous operation of the database and input/output. That is, you can input data intended for storage in the database and have Service Broker take that data immediately, freeing up the input screen while it proceeds to do the actual insertion.

The Rational Guide series of books are comprehensive, inexpensive and rather small. This book really has less than 200 pages of real live text. It can be read quickly and gives an excellent overview of the software as well as enough depth to be able to use it in real applications. It does presume that the reader have some experience with SQL Server and with the TSQL programming language.

The author of the book is the program manager for SQL Server Service Broker.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NO Fluff, January 26, 2007

By	Edward J. Pochinski "sql scripter" (USA NJ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Good book so far, this is an area I wish to master in the next year. This is all meat & potatoes with no fluff really. Also nice to see an informative book not cost 50.00. For the money this is a great buy and will demonstrate many of the brokers areas and techniques. Seems if you are creative you can take the knowledge from this book and write some neat stuff. After this is completed I will read up in BOL on this area and then goto MSDN to see whats up there.