title: Alternative to service broker for webapi calls
body: <p>I made an app a few years ago which used sqlserver and service broker to update the display when the data in the db was updated .</p>
  <p>Not really a fan of service broker, that is we a pain in its own right. But it did eventually work.</p>
  <p>Now though I’m trying to port everything to MAUI, mainly so I can target android and windows.</p>
  <p>However I have a problem. It seems advisable not to use sql connections direct in Maui code for some reason. So I have set up a webapi to handle this and pass the data back as a Json string.</p>
  <p>So using this method I can’t see any way to know when the database has changed.</p>
  <p>Is it just a matter of polling the db? Or is there a more elegant solution?</p>
  <p>Thank you</p>
  <p>Andrew</p>