At 9:30 -0400 9/18/02, Neil Mansilla wrote: >On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Rajesh Kanade wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> I am new to MY SQL . >> >> I am writing a script where I will have 2 insert statements >> The first insert is into a table which has an Auto_Increment field. >> I want to know the value which was inserted in this Auto_increment field and >> use it in the second INSERT statement. >> >> How can I do it in MySQL. > >Rajesh, if you wish to pull the value of the last AUTO_INCREMENT issued, >use this query: > > SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID(); > >The second INSERT statement really shouldn't need the value of the last >AUTO_INCREMENT issued, since it should just get the next number in >sequence, well, automatically.
That's assuming both INSERTs are into the same table. I got the idea that he wanted the AUTO_INCREMENT value for use in inserting a record into a different but related table. > >For example: > > Table schema: > id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, > name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL, > primary key (id) > > INSERT INTO Table VALUES (null,'Neil'); > INSERT INTO Table VALUES (null,'Rajesh'); > >If these were the first two records, the two rows would look like this: > >1 | Neil >2 | Rajesh > >Regards, >Neil Mansilla >whatUseek.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
