{"id":789,"date":"2007-06-24T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/bobb\/post\/A-supported-Service-Broker-external-activator.aspx"},"modified":"2007-06-24T05:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T05:39:00","slug":"a-supported-service-broker-external-activator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/bobb\/a-supported-service-broker-external-activator\/","title":{"rendered":"A supported Service Broker external activator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHad to write about another thing that &quot;caught my ear&quot; at TechEd during a chalktalk by Rick Negrin about Service Broker usage patterns.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nService Broker supports &quot;internal activation&quot;, that is, associate a stored procedure that gets invoked when a queue has messages to process as well as &quot;external activiation&quot;. When using external activation, an event notification occurs when a queue has messages to process, and this notification is picked up by an external application; the external application processes the queue messages, out-of-process to SQL Server.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is an SSMS template (see template explorer) for an internal activator procedure and an engine sample implementation of a class library to support SQLCLR activator procs. In addition, Remus Rusanu has written some excellent blog entries on activation program message processing patterns.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/SQLSrvSrvcBrkr\/Release\/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3853\">sample implementation<\/a> of an external activator as well. Rick mentioned &quot;productizing the external activator for SQL Server 2008&quot;. This would mean making the activator part of the SQL Server product, along with the extensive testing and support that go along with it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat&#39;s great news, and a supported, standard, configurable, external activator would make a great addition for SQL Server 2008. Now, about improved broker diagnostic and configuration&nbsp;utilities&#8230;and that SQLCLR support library&#8230;.and improved SSMS support. Those would help things out too (some people are never satisfied).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had to write about another thing that &quot;caught my ear&quot; at TechEd during a chalktalk by Rick Negrin about Service Broker usage patterns. Service Broker supports &quot;internal activation&quot;, that is, associate a stored procedure that gets invoked when a queue has messages to process as well as &quot;external activiation&quot;. 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