I am getting my arms around Notification Services (NS). We need to generate notifications based on about 5 different subscriptions. The 5 events that feed the subscriptions will be SQL based and will read from a work table. I would like to populate that work table with a subset of our high volume transaction data, run the events, and then clear the data for the next run...say 5 minutes later. So my question is, how do I know when the last of the 5 events has fired so I can clean out the data. In other words, I'd like the 5 events to fire in a certain order and have the last event clean up. Is there a way to tell the events in what order they can fire? Or other suggestions on how to solve this? I read up on Chronicles but it wasn't clear to me if that would solve my problem.
Secondly, if my events and subscriptions created notifications for 5 different subscriptions, can they be combined into one e-mail to be delivered to the subscriber? In other words, there are several subscription events that may happen during the day for a subscriber. The subscriber only wants one e-mail at the end of the day. Will NS combine it?
There are several ways to recognize new events in the SQL Server Event Provider. A couple that I've used in the past is:
1) Use a postprocessing query to update a column in the data source indicating that the row has been processed.
2) Use a Chronicles table to track the datetime of the last query and only look for rows that have been added since then.
HTH...
Joe|||Thanks Joe. That does help.
