Question

I have some stored procedures where I do inserts into my SQL Server db. I would like to return this GUID for use for future inserts, or w/e I find use for it as.

I know I could generate the GUID in the procedure and return it someway from that, but I’d like to avoid generating it there as it has a default value for the primary key (guid) row. I recall a function like SCOPE_IDENTITY for returning the identity column you just used, anything similar to this as a GUID?

Help is appreciated! Thanks 🙂

Answer 1

You can use the output clause from the insert statement.

Return as a result set from the SP like this. ID is a uniqueidentifier with default newid().

insert into YourTable(Col1)
output inserted.ID 
values (1)

Or capture to a table variable and do what ever you need after that.

declare @T table(ID uniqueidentifier)

insert into YourTable(Col1)
output inserted.ID into @T 
values (1)

select *
from @T