Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2005 – OUTPUT Clause Example and Explanation with INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE

By: Praveen Agrawal

Praveen Agrawal — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:40:51 +0000

Hi Ajit,

u can insert AutoID value to temp table, use following code,

–Creating a TestTable
CREATE TABLE TestTable (AutoID INT IDENTITY(1,1),ID INT, TEXTVal VARCHAR(100))
–Creating a Temp Table
DECLARE @TmpTable TABLE (AutoID INT,ID INT, TEXTVal VARCHAR(100))

–Insert value in TestTable and get value in Temp Table
INSERT TestTable (ID, TEXTVal)
OUTPUT Inserted.AutoID,Inserted.ID, Inserted.TEXTVal INTO @TmpTable
VALUES (1,’FirstVal’)

INSERT TestTable (ID, TEXTVal)
OUTPUT Inserted.AutoID,Inserted.ID, Inserted.TEXTVal INTO @TmpTable
VALUES (2,’SecondVal’)

select * from @TmpTable

AutoID ID TEXTVal
1 1 FirstVal
2 2 SecondVal

————————————————————–

we can’t Give The Autogenrate Column name in insert column, like insert TestTable(AutoID) that is wrong.

Thanks

Praveen Agrawal

By: Ajith

Ajith — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:03:20 +0000

Hi ,
We can’t insert AutoID values to temp table? I tried following, but giving errors,
———————–
CREATE TABLE TestTable (AutoID INT IDENTITY(1,1),ID INT, TEXTVal VARCHAR(100))
—-Creating temp table to store ovalues of OUTPUT clause
DECLARE @TmpTable TABLE (AutoID INT,ID INT, TEXTVal VARCHAR(100))
—-Insert values in real table as well use OUTPUT clause to insert
—-values in the temp table.
INSERT TestTable (AutoID,ID, TEXTVal)
OUTPUT Inserted.AutoID,Inserted.ID, Inserted.TEXTVal INTO @TmpTable
VALUES (1,’FirstVal’)
INSERT TestTable (AutoID,ID, TEXTVal)
OUTPUT Inserted.AutoID,Inserted.ID, Inserted.TEXTVal INTO @TmpTable
VALUES (2,’SecondVal’)
—-Check the values in the temp table and real table
—-The values in both the tables will be same
SELECT * FROM @TmpTable
SELECT * FROM TestTable
—-Clean up time
DROP TABLE TestTable
————————–

Thanks
Ajith

By: Ajith

Ajith — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:39:59 +0000

Hi pinaldave,
This is really good post. Can we use these things inside a transaction as well?
Thanks
Ajith

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By: Todd M

Todd M — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:56:48 +0000

Hi,
Thought I’d ask an expert this question. I sometimes have the need to do deep-copies involving multiple tables where I need to maintain a mapping between IDs of rows being copied from and IDs of the new rows. I usually have to resort to doing the inserts one by one using cursors in order to maintain these mappings, but I thought the OUTPUT clause might allow me to do it in sets. But now I’m not so sure I can get that “from” ID. Below is a simplification of what I’d like to do:

INSERT Thing (Name)
OUTPUT Inserted.ID AS ToID, ??? AS FromID
SELECT Name
FROM Thing
WHERE …

I can’t get this to work because it seems that INSERTED columns are the only ones I can output, and hence I can’t get the from ID. Can you confirm that this is correct? Thank you very much for your help.

By: Sameer

Sameer — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:07:24 +0000

I mean copy dept1 in TABLE B

By: Sameer

Sameer — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:06:19 +0000

Hi pinal,
I ejoy reading your blog as its neat and gives me a exact solution,

I am stumbled upon a small problem..

I have two tables which i want to update but the table B has a foreingn key in Table A which is Identity column,

Now if i do a single insert i am fine with output clause but how do i tackle a multiple insert.

Eg: table A Empid,Empname,deptid
table B, deptid,deptname,

now If i want to copy dept1 and insert into table B
Say dept1 has 100 employees,
My requirement is COPY the whole department with employees and create a duplicate dept in Table A
how do i do it. please help

By: Sukitha

Sukitha — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:12:35 +0000

hi every one,
i need a help. i want to connect more than 30 database at the time to view the datails for the chairman of our group of company. if you know the coding please help me.
thank you
Sukitha

By: Revathy Mani

Revathy Mani — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:33:47 +0000

Create an history table “table1″ to keep track the details of any changes in table “table2″

in this below example i am inserting the record into table “table1″ when ever any insert or update is happened in “table1″

Create trigger [tg_Sample] on [dbo].[table1] for Insert,Update as

Insert into table2 (col1,col2,col3,col4)
select col1,col2,col3,col4 from inserted

This link will be helpfull to you…

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa258254(SQL.80).aspx

By: Yasir

Yasir — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:03:09 +0000

HI,

Can you please give one example to create Trigger on Row level and if there is any change in any field, insert the whole row in into the table.

Thanks,

By: Shyam

Shyam — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:06:04 +0000

Hi Pinal,
Can we use Trigger in Sql server 2005 to perform:
1. Insert
2. Update
3. Delete
Processes with the FK. if yes.
Please give an example for that.

regards
shyam

By: pinaldave

pinaldave — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:32:13 +0000

Hi Ian MacLean,

I really do not understand your problem. Please clearify.

Regards,
Pinal Dave ( http://www.SQLAuthority.com )

By: Ian MacLean

Ian MacLean — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:05:58 +0000

Hey. thanks for pointing this clause out. It would be very helpful, if it worked for me. I am coding in C# and every time i go to insert an item in the table, the code will fail if “output inserted.*” is in the command text. i’ve tried moving around the clause as i’ve seen on msdn. i didn’t think that would help, and … it didn’t.

so, is there some special server configuration that i need? any helpful hints?