What is Service Broker?

For those familiar with Microsoft Message Queue you will find that Service Broker is very similar to MSMQ but is native to the Microsoft SQL Server.

Upgrade for sp_who2 called sp_who3

I’ve published this before over on tek-tips.com, but I figured that I’d republish it here as well. I’ve written an update for sp_who2 which I call sp_who3. It can be most useful when trying to diagnose slow running queries as it can provide a wealth of information in a single screen.