Another hesitation for SB for us was that there are a lot of levels to our business that are not 'development'. Prodops/Devops/Support/Implementations...lot's of overhead to train and code for at...

'Some Guy from Seattle',

...and indeed you had a service broker activation thread on each of these 1000's of databases?

I did some lab work with 100 databases and service broker running on each one. The load we were putting on it was a little overwhelming. It wasn't that it...

Our hesitation was simply the number of worker threads it could potentially spawn. We have a system with 1000's of databases. Our original intent was to have SB run on...