Comments on: SQL SERVER – @@IDENTITY vs SCOPE_IDENTITY() vs IDENT_CURRENT – Retrieve Last Inserted Identity of Record

By: Sandhya P

Sandhya P — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:47:22 +0000

Hello,

I have the same question like raksha posted
on July 9, 2007 at 2:07 am

Can you please help us?

Thanks and Regards,
Sandhya P.

By: Brian Tkatch

Brian Tkatch — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:23:04 +0000

@Ieuan0928

Could you post the scenario please. That is odd that id did not work.

By: Ieuan0928

Ieuan0928 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:31:33 +0000

I’m convinced with the use of SCOPE_IDENTITY until one scenario i found out that SCOPE_IDENTITY doesn’t return the desired value if Instead of Triggers is implemented on the desired table.

But luckily, the @@IDENTITY works with that way.

However, still can’t understand the logic behind the scenario.

(Scenario Notes:)

INSTEAD OF TRIGGERS => checks the other tables in terms of required data, then, reinserts all fields with updated data.

By: Chucksterlicious

Chucksterlicious — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:09:41 +0000

I think it’s important to note here that while @@IDENTITY and SCOPE_IDENTITY() appear to work the same in the context of the same scope, that only @@IDENTITY will work if you happen to be trying to reference the current identity value within the same insert statement that is creating the IDENTITY value. SCOPE_IDENTITY() will return a NULL value in this case. I know you will ask why you would ever want to do this, but i just had a case where i had to do this and SCOPE_IDENTITY() did not work.

By: Chenji

Chenji — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:26:25 +0000

Following SQL Query is to get the LAST INSERTED ID if the column is auto increment using iBatis and SQL SERVER.

– your insert statement

select @@IDENTITY as value

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:03:56 +0000

You saved me again. Your posts always provide better explanations than MS

By: cp

cp — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:27:55 +0000

Thanks much, Pinal!!

By: mathias

mathias — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:59:24 +0000

Pinal,

This is very good, thank you very much

mathias

By: Jacob Sebastian

Jacob Sebastian — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:50:10 +0000

@Sachin Kalra
If proc A calls B and B calls C – Everything in all the 3 procedures are in the same session.

However, the SCOPE of a piece of code in PROC C will be limited only to that procedure (C). But it will be in the same session as A and B

By: Sachin Kalra

Sachin Kalra — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:27:18 +0000

hello

would like to know the difference in terminology current session and current scope. Thanks in advance.

By: Rahul Bhargava

Rahul Bhargava — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:14:03 +0000

Hello All,
I wish to fetch last record from a table in sql server 2005 without using any group by or stored procedure is it possible

By: cubaman

cubaman — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:26:18 +0000

Prateek:
Do a loop inside every insert. In that way, you’ll be able to retrieve SCOPE_IDENTITY() after each insert

loop:
begin
Insert 1
loop:
Insert2
loop:
begin
Insert3
end
begin
end
end

By: Pubudu Gayan

Pubudu Gayan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:49:25 +0000

I have problem regarding this three

I have created sp for insert values in to three tables. Those three tables are like steps 1st table’s primary key keeps second table and second table primary key keeps the third table. Please follow following example to more clarification
insert Table 1 set ID1=SCOPE_IDENTITY()
Cursor for table 2
Insert table2 (foreign key ID1 ) SET ID2= SCOPE_IDENTITY()
Cursor for table 3
Insert table3 (foreign key ID3 ) SET ID2= SCOPE_IDENTITY()
END CURESOR 3
END CURESOR 2

Can I used Scope_Identity() for this scenario or any other solutions are welcome. Thanks for your advance reply.

By: Nitin Gautam

Nitin Gautam — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:11:58 +0000

None of the above is compatible with HSQLDB.
What if we want to junit the MSSQL DAOs using HSQLDB in memory DB?

How can we make the query compatible with both SQLServer and HSQLDB??

By: Brian Tkatch

Brian Tkatch — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:58:14 +0000

@Dnyaneshwar

What is not working about @@IDENTITY? Please give an example of what you are trying, and what you expected.

By: Dnyaneshwar

Dnyaneshwar — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:57:39 +0000

@@IDENTITY is not working on SQL server 2005.
Why it is not working?
thnks.

By: gsej

gsej — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:56:08 +0000

Dave,

I read recently about a bug which could result in scope_identity() returning the wrong value. Do you know if this issue is still outstanding, and if so, should we avoid scope_identity(), or is it possible to mitigate the problem in some way?

The issue is described here:

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=328811

By: Minal

Minal — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:10:46 +0000

how to get identity value of last updated record?

By: Alexandre Bizarro

Alexandre Bizarro — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:39:36 +0000

Tku….
very smart!

By: sanna

sanna — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:14:27 +0000

hello ..
i am trying to make a sp how looks something like this,
what i want is to be able to get 2tables to create a new customer. .. i dosent work.. can you help me???

@Namn varchar(40),
@Adress varchar(50),
@Postnr varchar(6),
@Beskrivning varchar(max),
@Erbjudande varchar(max),
@kontaktUppgift varchar(30),
@CafeId int

AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;

BEGIN TRAN
declare @CafeId int
BEGIN TRY

INSERT INTO app.Cafe(Namn, Adress, PostNr, Beskrivning, Erbjudande)
VALUES(@Namn, @Adress,@Postnr,@Beskrivning,@Erbjudande)

Insert into app.Kontakt ( kontaktUppgift , CafeID)
values( @kontaktUppgift,@CafeId)

SET @CafeId = SCOPE_IDENTITY();

COMMIT TRAN
END TRY

BEGIN CATCH
–Återställer till innan begin tran
ROLLBACK TRAN
RAISERROR(‘fel i överföringen.’ ,16,1)
END CATCH
END