Troubleshooting SSB Applications with ssbdiagnose.exe

SQL Server 2008 comes with a new command-line application, ssbdiagnose.exe. You use this advanced utility to monitor SSB conversations or to check application configuration status, both across databases and between computers. It supports a variety of authentication and configuration options and generates either plain text or XML as its output.

The general syntax for ssbdiagnose.exe has three parts:

• Output format and error level
• Connection information
• Application-specific settings
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