Question

I was wondering how to monitor a database for changes programmatically.
Suppose I want to have a .net application which would run after every 100th or(nth) row insertion or row deletion or updation . how can it be achieved?
I know little about triggers.they can be used to fire executable.
But I heard that it isn’t a good practice.
Is there any other way?
2]Do database fire events on table updations? and can they be caught in a program?
3]Can SQL reporting services be used here?

(Also assuming that this application is independent from the actual program which does
database manipulation.)

Answer 1

SQL Server 2005 introduced query
notifications, new functionality that
allows an application to request a
notification from SQL Server when the
results of a query change. Query
notifications allow programmers to
design applications that query the
database only when there is a change
to information that the application
has previously retrieved.

Check out the MSDN link for more clarity
and sample immplementation