At 09:59 PM 18/03/2004 -0800, you wrote:

>The DBMS is not the piece that should be responsible for the "notify" event.

Aaach, the DBMS is the only piece that knows for sure that the event happened.

>I would suggest that the client send a multicast on the LAN to notify the
>other clients that new data is available.

Bleh, are you saying that client applications should take responsibility
for notifying changes of database state to other clients?

Coo. The "MS" in "RDBMS" doesn't stand for "Microsoft", you know!
:-<

/helen