neal,
Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 11:17:49 AM, you wrote:
n> I have a table that will auto increment it's PK field upon adding a new
n> record. I would like obtain that auto-increment value immedicately after
n> the add of that record so that I may reference it within another table ...
n> sort of an informal PK/FK relationship.
n> In SQLServer I believe I recall there was a function something like @@ID to
n> retrieve this value ... could be written directly into your SQL.
n> What sort of function exists in mySQL for this purpose?
Take a look at LAST_INSERT_ID():
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Miscellaneous_functions.html
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