Question

I want to get the new created ID when you insert a new record in table.

I read this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177564.aspx but it needs to create temporary table.

I want to return the ID after executing INSERT statement (assuming executing just one INSERT).

Example:

1     Joe      Joe
2     Michael  Mike
3     Zoe      Zoe

When executing an INSERT statement, I want to return the created ID, means 4.

Can tell me how to do that using SQL statement or it is not possible ?

Answer 1

If your SQL Server table has a column of type INT IDENTITY (or BIGINT IDENTITY), then you can get the latest inserted value using:

INSERT INTO dbo.YourTable(columns....)
   VALUES(..........)

SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY()

This works as long as you haven’t inserted another row – it just returns the last IDENTITY value handed out in this scope here.

There are at least two more options – @@IDENTITY and IDENT_CURRENT – read more about how they works and in what way they’re different (and might give you unexpected results) in this excellent blog post by Pinal Dave here.