Enabling Service Broker in SQL Server 2008

In case anyone else is looking for a solution to this problem, the following command worked great for me. It releases all other connections to the database instead of waiting.

ALTER DATABASE [DBNAME] SET ENABLE_BROKER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

ok here is how to do this if yours is disabled or you need to restore a backup, which seems to disable it.

just run this script, it will kill all the process's that a database is using (why you carnt in 2008 manually kill process's unlike 2005 is beyond me) and then set the broker

USE master
go

DECLARE @dbname sysname

SET @dbname = 'YourDBName'

DECLARE @spid int
SELECT @spid = min(spid) from master.dbo.sysprocesses where dbid = db_id(@dbname)
WHILE @spid IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
EXECUTE ('KILL ' + @spid)
SELECT @spid = min(spid) from master.dbo.sysprocesses where dbid = db_id(@dbname) AND spid > @spid
END


ALTER DATABASE @dbname SET ENABLE_BROKER

In Sql Server 2012 you can go to Properties-> Options -> Service Broker