Query notification equivalent for SQL Server 2016 I was looking for query notification to get notified on multiple client for a specific table changes. It seems that this feature has been removed in SQL Server 2008 R2. Documentation is not very clear about that. 

When exactly has this been removed (which version exactly)?

Is there any other way to manage that without additional components?
Query Notifications have not been removed or changed.  The Documentation has just not all been ported to docs.microsoft.com.

See, eg:

Working with Query Notifications

Query Notifications - sys.dm_qn_subscriptions

Detecting Changes with SqlDependency