Watching a table for change in MySQL?

Question

Is there a better way to watch for new entries in a table besides selecting from it every n ticks of time or something like that?

I have a table that an external pro

Answer 1

Another similar approach would be to add

add column Last_Modified TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP 

to each table and preface your select queries to compare the last request date/time with the max(Last_Modified).

Databases are typically pull sources and not push so you'll still need to programmatically probe for changes no matter what.