> What's funny is that I never understood how the > MySQL/SQL-Server way could correctly work. For example I have > 2 tables, both with an auto-incremental field. > Table 1 has an after insert trigger that does an extra insert > in table 2. > When I do an insert in table 1 , what does 'last_insert_id' return ? > The value for table 2 or table 1 ? > The last inserted id for your connection is the one for table > 2, but you > need/expect the last id for table 1 :-) >
Before MySQL 5.0.12 last_insert_id returns table 2, since 5.0.12 table 1. Triggers were introduced in 5.0.2. SQLServer's SCOPE_IDENTITY() returns table 1 (the trigger is out of scope) and @@IDENTITY returns 2. Ludo _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
