Update UI with SignalR and Knockout when manually updating DB

Question

I have had a search around SO for this, but didn\'t come across anything obvious. I have a dashboard of jobs, and their status continually changes throughout the day and I\'m t

Answer 1

this makes sense, the application has no idea that data in the DB has changed. You need some trigger/notification to inform the application to query the database.

ideally you would not update the database manually/directly. You would use some service to query consume the data, process/validate the data, push the data to the database. send notifications to other systems that data was imported. (lots of different was to do this.)

in this case your website could receive a notification data was imported and kick off the dashboard queries.