> I don't work with M$ DBs, but saw that "autonumber" is an M$ concept.
> Purely for my own edification, how do you get the most resent
> value of an autonumber in M$? I was helping someone out who
> was using M$ stuff and was amazed that there was no currval function.
I beleive they call it IDENTITY and not autonumber.
You get it using either
SELECT @@IDENTITY
or
SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY()
depending on if you want the very latest identity or the latest int he
current scope (if you have a trigger inserting records in a different
table, they will differ - @@IDENTITY will return from the table affected
by the trigger, SCOPE_IDENTITY() will return it for the table *you*
updated)
//Magnus
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