SQL/MX Queuing and Publish/Subscribe Services
Introduction
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Comparing Triggers and Publish/Subscribe
Number of processes The same number of processes 
service events and actions.
You can scale subscribers 
independently of publishers 
(you can program multiple 
subscribers against one 
publisher).
Events versus actions There is a tight coupling 
between the number of events 
and the number of actions.
A subscriber might see a 
row only once after it has 
been updated many times. 
A subscriber is able to 
process many rows in a 
single transaction.
SQL/MP vs. SQL/MX Table 
Support
Supported for SQL/MX tables. Supported for SQL/MP and 
SQL/MX tables.
Table 1-1. Comparing Triggers and Publish/Subscribe (page 2 of 2)
Feature Triggers Publish/Subscribe










