Naming Service Broker Objects
This topic describes considerations for naming service broker objects. The conventions differ slightly for public interface objects, network and security configuration objects, and queues.
Public Interface Objects
Contracts, services, and message types form the public interface of a Service Broker application. Because the names of these objects are contained in messages, naming conventions for these objects often follow Universal Resource Identifier (URI) naming conventions. This helps to ensure unique names for the objects.
Services names can also use the conventions to specify a network address in a route. In this case, the name of the service can be used in a transport route. For more information on routing, see Service Broker Routing.
When sending and receiving messages, Service Broker uses binary matching for the names of these objects. Therefore, characters that have more than one binary representation require special care when public interface objects are named.
Network and Security Configuration Objects
The names for routes and remote service bindings are never included in a message. For convenience, these names can use the name of the service that the object configures.
These objects cannot be temporary objects. Therefore, the number sign (#) is not considered significant in names for these objects. An object with a name that begins with # is a permanent object rather than a temporary object.
Queues
Queue names can be used for many of the statements that accept table names. Therefore, queues names follow standard SQL Server identifier conventions, with one exception. Because queues cannot be temporary objects, the name of a queue cannot start with the number sign (#). Queues are schema-owned objects, so queue names can include a schema name and database name.