Retained Message Status And Deletetion ?

Hi There

We do not use message retention in our application.

However today i dicovered messages still sitting in a queue, on further investigation i found that the messages had been processed, the problem was that i had mistakenly altered a queue with rentention ON earlier.

So the messages on the queue were simply retatined messages.

But i have 2 questions:

1.Is there a way to "delete" these retained messages without ending the conversation, we use permanant conversations so ending the conversation is a last resort.


2.Why is the message status of the retaitned messages 0 ?

BOL : From the topic "Message Retention"

"For queues that specify retention, the RECEIVE command sets the status of received messages to 1 rather than deleting the message."

However my retained messages have a status of 0 ? Also i have confirmed that new not yet received messages have a status of 1.

BOL : From topic "RECEIVE (Transact-SQL) "

" Message Status

0=Ready1=Received message2=Not yet complete3=Retained sent message

"

But from my testing retained = 0 and Ready = 1, is this a mistake in BOL or am i missing something ?

Thanx