Question

How can I get the @@IDENTITY for a specific table?

I have been doing

select * from myTable 

as I assume this sets the scope, from the same window SQL query window in SSMS I then run

select @@IDENTITY as identt

It returns identt as null which is not expected since myTable has many entrie in it already..

I expect it to return the next available ID integer.

myTable has a ID column set to Primary key and auto increment.

Answer 1

You can use IDENT_CURRENT

IDENT_CURRENT( 'table_name' )

Note that IDENT_CURRENT returns the last identity value for the table in any session and any scope. This means, that if another identity value was inserted after your identity value then you will not retrieve the identity value that you inserted.