retrieving autonumber field from MSAccess

[neha arora]

hello all..

i have a table in MSaccess with the one of the fields as-
SSNO (AutoNumber)

i want to retrieve this value as a new row gets inserted into the table.
i have tried last_insert_id() -> it gives "Driver Does not support this function"

Please help me..
Thank You...

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Neha,
Welcome to JavaRanch!

Not all databases (or drivers) support retrieving the last record. MS Access is known for not supporting everything. Maybe you could write a query to get this number yourself?

[ujjwal soni]

Hi,

You can get that by firing select max(yourautonumberfieldname) from yourtable query.

[Jan Cumps]

ujjwal soni wrote:Hi,

You can get that by firing select max(yourautonumberfieldname) from yourtable query.

This might not give you your latest id. It will only guarantee to give you the highest value of ourautonumberfieldname available in the table. And it might result in a table lock.

[neha arora]

hey.. thank you all..

i have finally used
count=0;
while(rs.next())
count++;

and again moved rs.first() by making rs as ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE
it worked fine...

[steve souza]

I suspect that your code will not work if someone else inserts in between the original insert and when your code finishes its loop. It looks like the @@identity variable exists in access per the following from microsofts site. I don't use access so you should look into this further.

After an insert a query like 'select @@identity' will return the last identity used by that connection. So even if another user makes an insert it won't affect the return variable. Plus it will be much faster than the other approach.

However, Microsoft Access 2000 or later does support the @@IDENTITY property to retrieve the value of an Autonumber field after an INSERT. Using the RowUpdated event, you can determine if an INSERT has occurred, retrieve the latest @@IDENTITY value, and place that in the identity column of the local table in the DataSet.