AQ was first released in Oracle 8. It became free of charge in Oracle 9.2. Later, it was folded into Oracle Streams in Oracle 10.1. The functionality is now known as Oracle Streams AC. That is because it is built on top of Oracle Streams. Actually, I think the low level block it is built on are Oracle database tables.
Here is the order of doing things in AQ. You create a type. Then you create a queue table. Next you create the actual queue. Once all that is done, you can enqueue and dequeue all you want. You should be aware of one piece of terminology. The messages are called the payload.
You can asynchronously queue and dequeue. Or you could use notifications to automatically dequeue. To do that you need to create a callback procedure, add a subscriber, and register the subscriber. The roles specific to AQ are AQ_ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE and AD_USER_ROLE.
