You may get the incorrect value back buy doing this: So I'm thinking "how do I get something like VFP's old NextKey generation" akin to this:
* this was pseudo-code, off the top of my head trying to remember my coding from 17+ years ago FUNCTION GetNextKey(tcTable as String) as Integer <snip>
In the same insert statement you append ; select last_insert_id() ; and it returns YOUR value no matter what type of data column the key is. If you do some super fancy secondary select someone else may have gotten an insert in as well and your code returns their key, not yours.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:49 AM, < mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:
On 2016-03-09 19:55, Stephen Russell wrote:
why not this?
INSERT INTO table_name (col1, col2,...) VALUES ('val1', 'val2'...);SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID();
Sometimes you have to use the tool as intended.
Well that's basically what I'm doing, but it's in a framework so re-use is key. You don't put this after each task-specific SQL; that's why I had that subroutine. (Am I showing my age there? Does anybody say 'subroutine' anymore??? Reminds me of learning FORTRAN in the LATE 80s at Penn State!)
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