The Function of Service Broker Queues

Chris Johnson continues a series on Service Broker:

A queue is a full database object, like a table or a stored procedure. As such, it is part of a schema, and appears in the sys.objects view. A queue holds messages that have been sent to it, in the same way that a table does, and these messages can even be queried in the same way that you would query a table.

You can’t change the columns that are available, and there are quite a few of them. To see what there is, just run SELECT * against any queue, but a few of the key ones are service_name, service_contract_name, message_type_name, message_body, message_enqueue_time, conversation_handle.

Read on to see how to create a new queue.