[gameprogrammer] Re: Slightly offtopic: SQL Command

if you know that the maximum id is 8 before going in and then afterwords its
11, how do you know which ID number is the one that YOU were assigned?

The answer is you can't so unfortunately that wont work ):


On 10/30/06, Mikael Eriksson <mikael_miffe_eriksson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:24:46PM +1300, Jake Briggs wrote:
> Which database? Serial is a sqlserver thing isn't it? You can't reliably
> do this sort of thing on sql server 2003 (I think that's the right
> version). My solution was convoluted and annoying, involving a dummy
> table to simulate a sequence (like a sequence from postgres) and making
> sure to keep the transaction atomic.

Could't you get the ids before and after the insert, and do somekind of
diff?

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