How can SQLServer notify a vb.net application of an event?

Is there a relatively simple way that my VB.NET application can be notified of the fact that a开发者_StackOverflow社区 new value has been written to a table in SQL Server Express 2008? Polling is not an option since I'd need to do that every 10 seconds nonstop.

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Take a look at having your application subscribe to Query Notifications.

Also Using Query Notifications in .NET 2.0 to handle ad-hoc data refreshes