Jonathan Kehayias (@SQLPoolBoy) continues his Service Broker series; in this post, he demonstrates asynchronous functionality by walking through a simple configuration and example.
Jonathan Kehayias (@SQLPoolBoy) of SQLskills kicks off an interesting series on configuring and using Service Broker to accomplish asynchronous processing in SQL Server.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) talks about SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition and a couple of little carrots that might make this upgrade more compelling than SQL Server 2012.