Question

I need a tool or method that allows the transfer of data and automatically updates the foreign keys at the destination table.

The SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON/OFF is not what I’m looking for.

Example:

table master (id int identity, name char) table slave (id int identity, master_id int, name char) 

I would like to create a script like this:

insert into master(name) values ('master a') insert into master(name) values ('master b')  insert into slave(master_id,name) values ( ?, 'slave aa') insert into slave(master_id,name) values ( ?, 'slave bb') insert into slave(master_id,name) values ( ?, 'slave cc') insert into slave(master_id,name) values ( ?, 'slave dd') 

When inserting the slaves, I would like to know what is the new value of the master_id, in order to keep the same relation as in the original table.

Answer 1

@John Sansom: right on the money

@pv2008:

create proc InsertAndUpdate @parentName varchar(255), @childName varchar(255)  as declare @newParentId int insert into PARENT values (@parentName) select @newParentId = SCOPE_IDENTITY()  insert into CHILD values (@newParentId, @childName) 

call this sproc every time you insert