Where to learn SQL Server Service Broker?

Question

Are there any good resources to learn Service Broker? I'm looking for a newbie-friendly guide.

Answer 1

Some online articles:

• An Introduction to SQL Server Service Broker
• Service Broker Tutorials

I myself host a few articles:

• Reusing Conversations
• Writing Service Broker Procedures
• Troubleshooting Conversations

And there are several introduction level practical examples:

• Centralized Asynchronous Auditing with Service Broker
• Service Broker Foundations Workbench
• Using Service Broker instead of Replication
• Introducing Distributed Messaging using Service Broker in SQL Server 2005
• Building the MSDN Aggregation System

Answer 2

A good place to start could be Getting Started (Service Broker)

Answer 3

Also, to add to the list, once you've gone through those articles, try running the downloadable chapter-by-chapter examples in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Server-Service-Broker-Books-Professionals/dp/1590599993

(can download the sql scripts and example c# projects from the publisher's web site, but 90% of the explanation is in the actual book). The best way to get started is often to build some stuff.