SQL Server, using a table as a queue

Question

I\'m using an SQL Server 2008 R2 as a queuing mechanism. I add items to the table, and an external service reads and processes these items. This works great, but is missing

Answer 1

"since SQL Server 2005 introduced the OUTPUT clause, using tables as queues is no longer a hard problem". A great post on how to do this.

http://rusanu.com/2010/03/26/using-tables-as-queues/