The following example works for me. Applicable versions are shown inline: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use DBI;

#MS Access 2003
#DBI->installed_versions;
#  Perl            : 5.008008    (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)
#  OS              : MSWin32     (5.0)
#  DBI             : 1.59
#  DBD::ODBC       : 1.13

# Connect to the db

my $dbpathfile = 'C:\testdb.mdb';
my $db_driver = 'Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)';
my $dsn = "DBI:ODBC:DRIVER=$db_driver;DBQ=$dbpathfile";

my $dbh = DBI->connect( $dsn, '', '', { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit =>
+ 1 } )
            or die $DBI::errstr;

# Create table for test data

my $tblname = 'test_table';

my $tbl_sql = join( ' ', 'CREATE TABLE', $tblname,
                         '(ID AUTOINCREMENT, field1 TEXT,',
                         'CONSTRAINT', $tblname . '_pk', 'PRIMARY KEY 
+(ID))' );
$dbh->do( $tbl_sql );

# Insert test data

my $insert_sql = join( ' ', 'INSERT INTO', $tblname, '( field1 ) VALUE
+S ( ? )' );
my $sth = $dbh->prepare( $insert_sql );
$sth->execute( 'test data' );

# Use @@IDENTITY to get the last insert ID
# See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815629

my $id_sql = 'SELECT @@IDENTITY';
$sth = $dbh->prepare( $id_sql );
$sth->execute;
my $id = $sth->fetchrow_array;
print "Last insert ID is: $id\n";

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Thanks to james2vegas and his post for seeding this approach. Thanks also to mje for considering adding this example to the docs for DBD::ODBC.

In reply to Re: Last Insert ID in MS Access (example using @@IDENTITY) by bobf
in thread Last Insert ID in MS Access by greyhawk

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