Michael:
WOW! NEAT! THANKS!! That solved the problem.
Sincerely,
Andrew Powell
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Michael Peppler wrote:
> Andrew Powell writes:
> > It appears that selecting @@IDENTITY returns only the first IDENTITY
> > result for the database connection. This is with SyBase 11.0.3.3, DBI
> > 1.13 and DBD:Sybase 0.91.
> >
> > For example, I created a test table as such:
> > create table test (id numeric(10,0) identity, blah char(10) null)
> >
> > And then ran a Perl script:
> >
> > ...
> > # connect to the database
> > $db = DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:", $dbuser, $dbpass);
> >
> > # test the first insertion
> > $qd = $db->prepare("insert into test (blah) values ('one')");
> > $qd->execute;
>
> Because you don't call fetch() the statement handle is left as
> "active". When you call prepare below DBD::Sybase opens a new
> connection for you (it can't tell that there are no rows to be fetched
> [well, maybe it could, but right now it doesn't]).
>
> > $qd = $db->prepare('select @@identity');
> > $qd->execute;
> > $row = $qd->fetchrow_arrayref;
> > print "Identity: $row->[0]\n";
>
> So what happens is that you are querying @@identity on different
> connections, which will always be 1.
>
> Try this:
>
> $qd = $db->prepare("insert into test (blah) values ('one')\nselect
> \@\@identity");
> $qd->execute;
> do {
> while($d = $qd->fetch) {
> print "Identity: $d->[0]\n";
> }
> } while($qd->{syb_more_results});
>
> Michael
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