Question

I am have two fields in my table:

One is Primary key auto increment value and second is text value.
lets say: xyzId & xyz

So I can easily insert like this

insert into abcTable(xyz) Values('34')

After performing above query it must insert these information

xyzId=1 & xyz=34

and for retrieving I can retrieve like this

select xyzId from abcTable

But for this I have to write down two operation. Cant I retrieve in single/sub query ?

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you can’t do an insert and a select in a single query.
You can use a Store Procedures to execute the two instructions as an atomic operation or you can build a query in code with the 2 instructions using ‘;’ (semicolon) as a separator betwen instructions.

Anyway, for select identity values in SQL Server you must check @@IDENTITY, SCOPE_IDENTITY and IDENT_CURRENT. It’s faster and cleaner than a select in the table.