HI Kay, It looks to me like the select should be select scope_identity() as formatid from format
i.e. the 'as' refers to the column rather than the table which is how I read your sql. On Jan 20, 2008 10:01 PM, Kay Smoljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a site that uses an SQL Server database. I'm pretty sure this > was working before but now it's not (shared hosting database, so I > have no control over that part). > > Usually to return the last inserted ID, I run a select after an insert > like so: > > <cfquery datasource="#dsn#" name="qry"> > SET NOCOUNT ON > INSERT INTO Format (name) > VALUES (<cfqueryparam cfsqltype="cf_sql_varchar" value="#name#">) > SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() FROM Format AS FormatID > SET NOCOUNT OFF > </cfquery> > > Then refer to the last ID as qry.FormatID. > > However, it's now telling me that FormatID is not defined in qry. If I > dump out the contents of qry, I see there's a column called > "COMPUTED_COMLUMN_1" which has the value I want. But I'm curious as to > why this has changed (like I said, I am 90% sure it wasn't like this > last week) - is it a setting on the db server itself? Is there any > problem referring directly to COMPUTED_COLUMN_1? > > Thanks, > K. > > -- > Kay Smoljak > business: www.cleverstarfish.com > standards: kay.zombiecoder.com > coldfusion: kay.smoljak.com > personal: goatlady.wordpress.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:296934 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
