Question

I’m trying to create a bunch of entries in a database with a single script and the problem I’m encountering is how to reference the generated primary key of the previous entry I created.

For example if I created a customer, then tried to create an order for that customer, how do I get the primary key generated for the customer?

I’m using SQLServer.

Answer 1

Like so:

DECLARE @customerid int; INSERT INTO customers(name) VALUES('Spencer'); SET @customerid = @@IDENTITY; 

EDIT:

Apparently it needs to be SCOPE_IDENTITY() in order to function as expected with triggers.

DECLARE @customerid int; INSERT INTO customers(name) VALUES('Spencer'); SET @customerid = SCOPE_IDENTITY();