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Asked: 2026-06-10T03:57:46+00:00

I know that in T-SQL (Server 2008 R2) I can use the ‘Output’ keyword

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I know that in T-SQL (Server 2008 R2) I can use the ‘Output’ keyword to get the Id of a row I just inserted. For example, I can do

insert into [Membership].[dbo].[User] (EmailAddress) 
output Inserted.UserId 
values('testUser1@test.com')

Is there any way of composing this into another insert? For example, lets say I want to add a new user and immediately add that user to a UserRole table which maps the UserId to a RoleId.

Basically, I would like to do something like below.

insert into UserRole (RoleId, UserId) 
values 
(
    1, 
    insert into [Membership].[dbo].[User] (EmailAddress) 
    output Inserted.UserId values('testUser1@test.com')
)

But I can’t seem to get this to work. I tried wrapping the internal insert in brackets () or using a select * from () etc.

What am I missing? Is this composition even possible?

Thanks for the help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You would have to capture the output into a table variable:

    DECLARE @TempVar TABLE (UserID INT)

insert into [Membership].[dbo].[User] (EmailAddress) 
output Inserted.UserId INTO @TempVar(UserID)
values('testUser1@test.com')

    and then in a second step do an insert from that temp table into the target table:

    INSERT INTO dbo.UserRole (RoleId, UserId) 
   SELECT 
      (yourRoleId), tv.UserID
   FROM @TempVar tv

    You could also direct the OUTPUT clause directly into the target table – that’ll work if you can e.g. use a fixed value for your RoleID:

    DECLARE @FixedRoleID INT = 42

INSERT INTO [Membership].[dbo].[User] (EmailAddress) 
OUTPUT @FixedRoleID, Inserted.UserId INTO dbo.UserRole(RoleId, UserId)
VALUES ('testUser1@test.com')
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