Systems and methodologies are provided as part of a computing environment that implements an enhanced tabular data stream (TDS) protocol. Such enhanced TDS protocol can mitigate synchronization inconsistencies between client and servers, improve robustness of the data transfer, facilitate password specification as part of login procedures, and reduce administration overhead. Various headers are provided as part of the data stream protocol, and a versioning scheme is established that facilitates proper communication between servers and clients having different release dates and versions of the TDS protocol.
A computer-implemented method of streaming a plurality of messages from a source queue to at least one destination queue over a computer network. The method may include steps of generating a remote procedure call, the remote procedure being configured to encapsulate at least header data, message data for each of the plurality of messages and an end of batch token, the header data being common to each of the plurality of messages and including an identification of the at least one destination queue, the end of batch token signaling that no further message data follows; sending the generated remote procedure call over the computer network to the destination queue identified in the header data, and dequeueing at least the message data for each of the plurality of messages from the source queue and streaming the dequeued messages over the network, and successively enqueueing each streamed message data into the at least one destination queue identified by the header data until the end of batch token is received.