On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 04:25:05PM -0700, b b wrote:
>
> Is there an environment variable that returns the
> primary key of the last inserted row. This is usefull
> if you insert a rwo and need the primary key to insert
> it into another table as a foreign key.
>
> In MS-SQL that is equivalent to @@identity variable:
> insert into organization ('org name', ....)
> insert into contact (@@identity, 'contact name'
> .....)
> Here Identity is the organization's ID that is needed
> as a foreign key in contact table.See currval() and nextval(). -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good > men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke > "The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be > governed by people worse than themselves." - Plato
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