query distribution using service broker
Hello ,
I am wokring on an application where in I am migrating the legacy application to SQL server. for this when ever I make any changes to the legacy application,I immediately move this changes to SQL, using insert/delete/update to SQL.
I also want all these data on 2 to 3 other SQL servers which are on different remote machines. for this i thought of using the service broker to send the query as messages.
So on the initiator(where the legacy application reside), i create 2 to 3 queues(based upon number of receivers) and each time a query is successful on the initiator, i move these messages(queries) to the initiator queues and send them to the various targets. on the target i just pop these messages and execute them so that the query run on the all the targets and all my databases are in synch.
I need some info on various operations on the Service broker queues like:
1.How do i insert/update/delete from the queue.
2.Can i set some size constraint on the queue
3.Can i get the info like when the queue is full.
4.Can i set some custom flags on the queue like, queue is invalid or valid(setting and getting these falgvalues).
5.Clearing the entire queue.
These are the operations, i need on the queue for various use cases(failure cases)
Can you point to some documentation/tutorials whihc sheds more light on these queue operations.
Thanks,
