SQL-question: returning the id of an insert querry

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Hi,

Im building an user database with many tables keeping the data for the
Address, Phone numbers, etc which are referenced by a table where I keep
the single users. My question is, how do I get the "Id"-value of a newly
inserted address to store it in the referencing user table:

(a) INSERT INTO address VALUES (....);

(b) INSERT INTO users VALUES ( name, ... , address , ... );

where address should hold the value of the Id from the Adress table.

Do have to do an
SELECT id FROM address WHERE oid = oid_returned_by_insert(a)
or something like that after doing the insert(a) to get the correct id
value, or is there a better way to do this.

Im writing my app in Perl with DBD/DBI

Thanks in advance,

Andreas Fromm

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