I wonder if anyone could shed some light on the following problem:
I would like to log information about notification batches in my app
database.
1.

We will have about 10 clients apps connecting to our data store.  When one
client changes a record or in any way modifies the data store I would like
to have the other clients get that data.
So I can either have the clients poll the data store asking for changes or I

I am working through Shyam's book trying to look to make sure the application
is working as needed. The processing of my data using a filewatcher processes
the file done, but I don't see a batch in the NS<Service Name>Events table.
Am I missing something, or should I not worry ...

I am using SQL Server 2005 - Notification Services.
I am finding the problem as mentioned below while bulding a sample implemented by me.
PLease let me know what has it got to do with and how can it be resloved.
Metadata file 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL ...

From time to time, where there was large event batch, which may contain over
10,000 events, the SQL-NS failed to generate the notifications, and the
following error was logged in the event log:
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I am trying to make the generator run matching rules in parallel by
trying different values for ThreadPoolSize, and restarting the
instance.  It seems to have no effect: the rows on NSRuleFirings1
continue to strictly have start times after the previous row end time.

Hi All,
I am new to SQL Server Notification Services and want to know if the
following is possible using the same.
I have a scenario where subscriber wants a data in excel or pdf format as an

I want to let everyone know that we now have a new Notification Services
discussion forum available on MSDN. You can access it, along with other
developer forums, at http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn.
The direct link to the NS forum is:

Notification Services on SQL 2005 utilizes .NET Framework version 2.0.
(correct?)
If so, will there be a version of
microsoft.sqlserver.notificationservices.dll for SQL 2005 NS that will

I am trying to go through Shyam Pather book for SQL NS 2000 on SQL 2005, but
am not finding the GrantXpExec.cmd. Is there a different way to do the same
thing in SQL 2005 NS?

can i access by code and instance of notificatfion service that is generated
in a different machine.
like-> new instance(nsData); where nsData is instance name of a notification
service installed in a different machine

I've made my first SQL 2005 NS Application. When I use FileChannel
DeliveryChannel, it works OK. I get the notification in my folder. But I have
a problem with SMTP Deliverychannel.
I don't get the mail in my Inbox. I've configured my SQLMail, IIS, i've

I would like to have users login to the subscription management
application.  In general, each user would only have the ability to
manage subscriptions for themselves.  There would also be a list of
super users who could enter subscriptions for all users.

Does SQL Notification Services support multipart messages? I can't find any
reference to it in the documentation and so if it does how, in concept , is
it implemented?
Miriam

I recently learned about Notification Services at TechEd, and have a
question. Our company sells an application that can utilize SQL Server
or Oracle as the backend database. I'd love to investigate using
Notification Services as the engine for our app, but can't consider it