Question

What is the easiest / most efficient way to get the entire row inserted after an INSERT statement?

I am pretty sure I could do this as follows:

$aQuery = "INSERT into myTable (a, b, c) VALUES (1, 'Hello', 'Goodbye')";
//the IDENTITY coloumn in myTable is named id
$result = sqlsrv_query($myConn, $aQuery );
if ($result) {
    $res = sqlsrv_query('SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID()');
    $row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($res);
    $lastInsertId = $row[0];
    $subQuery = "SELECT * FROM myTable where id = {$lastInsertId}";
    $subResult = sqlsrv_query($myConn, $subQuery);
    if ($subResult) {
        while($subrow = sqlsrv_fetch_array($subResult)) {
            echo($subrow ['id'] . ', '.
                 $subrow ['a'] . ', '.
                 $subrow ['b']);  //etc...
        }
     }
}

However, I am concerned about the possibility of another insert occurring just before my SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID() and thus messing up my logic to boot. How can I be certain that the last inserted id is truly the INSERT I called previously, and not something happening somewhere else?

Is there a more appropriate way of doing this, perhaps a complete SQL solution (such that the query returns the row automatically rather than using PHP)?

UPDATE: myTable DOES have an explicitly defined (and auto-incremented) identity column, named id.

Answer 1

This will work:

"INSERT into myTable (a, b, c) OUTPUT Inserted.a, Inserted.b, Inserted.c VALUES (1, 'Hello', 'Goodbye')