Re: SQL-question: returning the id of an insert querry

I saw this method of Statement class in jdbc.
Will the return int contain the autogenerated key value ??

public int executeUpdate(String sql,
int autoGeneratedKeys)
throws SQLException

thanks,
kathy

Scott Chapman wrote:

> On Monday 10 November 2003 08:23, David Green wrote:
> > Are X & Y two different connections?
> > If you execute 2 statements on the same connection and then get
> > currval() it will give the last generated id.
> >
> > Ex.
> > On 1 connection:
> > INSERT INTO A (fld) VALUES (val); -- id generated = 1
> > INSERT INTO A (fld) VALUES (val2); -- id generated = 2
> > SELECT currval('SA');
> > 2
>
> Thanks for the clarification. With web applications and connection
> pooling, it would appear that it's quite easy to get incorrect values
> back. This is what I thought.
>
> I talked with the author or SQLObject about this recently and I thnk
> he's implementing this correctly, by querying the cursor for the last
> OID?:
>
> def _queryInsertID(self, conn, table, idName, names, values):
> c = conn.cursor()
> q = self._insertSQL(table, names, values)
> if self.debug:
> print 'QueryIns: %s' % q
> c.execute(q)
> c.execute('SELECT %s FROM %s WHERE oid = %s'
> % (idName, table, c.lastoid()))
> return c.fetchone()[0]
>
> The other way to do it would be to manually fetch nextval and insert
> into the table over-riding the default for the ID field (assuming it
> defaulted to the nextval in the sequence). I don't know which way is
> best (for performance, for instance).
>
> It's be nice if INSERT could be made to return the OID or (better yet)
> the primary key field value when it completes. That would solve this
> problem in one action and completely remove the need for the second
> query. I expect it would have to be user-togglable so it didn't break
> with existing code?
>
> Scott
>
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