Yesterday we had our November SaDev meeting and had Roger
Wolter there to talk to us about SQL server 2005. One of the things he talks
quite a bit on was the new broker services. I realized I've not paid enough
attention to all the new SQL server technologies since I did not even know it
existed! I've been much more interested in Visual Studio (Whidbey) and C# 2.0
The interesting bit (one of the) I learned yesterday is that even SQL Express
supports the broker services (with limitations) and that it can be used in
conjunction with a full SQL server to set up a full queuing solution. I found
the following link about it too:
http://blogs.msdn.com/rushidesai/archive/2005/03/03/384520.aspx
This could be truly useful! This means you can get away with having to buy just
one full license and use the broker services to satellite servers. That will give tremendous power in remote asynchronous
computing.
Thanks Roger for all that info! Hope you remember us and all the questions we asked about features not currently in the product.