thanks! i was more looking for oracle's implementation of queueing not what a queue is. there is someone else that is supposed to be looking at msmq so if i don't do a good job of explaining Oracle's queueing capabilities, well, that's one more thing outside of the database. from what i understand, the application this is for will be recieving xml files from client applications across the country for processing. the processing will take a significant amount of time so the clients will recieve a 'we got your stuff' message and the queue is meant to implement an order to the processing (there are several files submitted that need to be processed in a certain order) myself and another person been asked to put on a little demo. i was being a little sarcastic with the 'barely know how to spell queue' comment. :) On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:26:57 +0000, ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx <ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I just realized this. This list is a queue. > > We send out an email to the server. The server gets them and sends them out > in order. You can also think of the common feeder line at the bank(i think > this is a generic example... dont remember). Its not done in real time. If > it was done in real time. We would send an email and our screen would > 'wait', until the emails had been sent out to everyone. Instead, we send out > an email. Go away and later see that it has been forwarded to the rest of > the list. > > People queue up(get in line). Each person is helped in order by one of many > tellers. These are the subscribers. The essentially 'pop' a person from the > queue and act on their 'message'. > > -------------- Original message -------------- > > > I'm supposed to be giving a demo of Oracle's Advanced Queueing feature > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l