Is there a way to be notified in .NET when data changes in the Sql Server? Like an Event?

Question

Is there a way to bind an event to Sql Server (specially Azure) so that, when there\'s new data in a table, for instance, my .NET process will be notified?

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Answer 1

Not in Azure. In box product you have Query Notifications and its derivatives (SqlNotificationRequest, SqlDependency and SqlCacheDependency), see The Mysterious Notification for details. You can use it as a LINQ wrapper with LinqToCache.

But Query Notifications are not supported on Azure. On Azure your application should notify whenever it updates the database, using Azure Queues.