Actually, this is an SQL issue and not a Perl-specific one.

If you want to find the last identity after an insert and you are using MS SQL Server, you can use @@IDENTITY:

    SELECT @@IDENTITY

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Unfortunately, this is not a terribly robust solution. This will return the last identity created from the current connection. However, you must run this immediately after your insert as subsequent inserts will overwrite this value. Further, if you have triggers in your database that fire when you do your insert and if these triggers do inserts, then @@IDENTITY will likely not return the data you are expecting (of course, I have serious reservations about triggers themselves). If you are using MS SQL Server 2000, this problem has been solved.

If you run the select immediately after your insert and you do not have any triggers, you should have no problem.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: Perl ODBC question by Ovid
in thread Perl ODBC question by kendo

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