I don't work with M$ DBs, but saw that "autonumber" is an M$ concept. Purely for my own edification, how do you get the most resent value of an autonumber in M$? I was helping someone out who was using M$ stuff and was amazed that there was no currval function.
Thanks,
Rick
Scott Marlowe
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On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 16:16, lorid wrote:
> I could have sworn I kept a copy of prior emails that discussed how to
> get back a value that was just inserted into a autonumber (or in
> postgresql case a sequence number)
If you know the name of the sequence the number came from you can use
currval():
insert into table1 (info) values ('abc');
select currval('table1seq');
Assuming table1seq is the name of the sequence here.
In 8.0 there's a function to do this (I'm not sure of the name, but a
quick search of the 8.0 docs should turn it up.)
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