@@IDENTITY after INSERT statement always returns 0

Question

I need a function which executes an INSERT statement on a database and returns the Auto_Increment primary key. I have the following C# code but, while the INSERT statement works fine (I can see the record in the database, the PK is generated correctly and rows == 1), the id value is always 0. Any ideas on what might be going wrong?

    public int ExecuteInsertStatement(string statement)
    {
        InitializeAndOpenConnection();
        int id = -1;


        IDbCommand cmdInsert = connection.CreateCommand();
        cmdInsert.CommandText = statement;
        int rows = cmdInsert.ExecuteNonQuery();

        if (rows == 1)
        {
            IDbCommand cmdId = connection.CreateCommand();
            cmdId.CommandText = "SELECT @@Identity;";
            id = (int)cmdId.ExecuteScalar();
        }

        return id;
    }
    private void InitializeAndOpenConnection()
    {
        if (connection == null)
            connection = OleDbProviderFactory.Instance.CreateConnection(connectString);

        if(connection.State != ConnectionState.Open)                 
            connection.Open();
    }

In response to answers, I tried:

public int ExecuteInsertStatement(string statement, string tableName)
    {
        InitializeAndOpenConnection();
        int id = -1;
        IDbCommand cmdInsert = connection.CreateCommand();
        cmdInsert.CommandText = statement + ";SELECT OID FROM " + tableName + " WHERE OID = SCOPE_IDENTITY();";
        id = (int)cmdInsert.ExecuteScalar();

        return id;
    }

but I'm now getting the error "Characters found after end of SQL statement"

I'm using an MS Access database with OleDb connection, Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0

Answer 1

1) combine the INSERT and SELECT statement (concatenate using ";") into 1 db command

2) use SCOPE_IDENTITY() instead of @@IDENTITY

INSERT INTO blabla... ; SELECT OID FROM table WHERE OID = SCOPE_IDENTITY()

-- update:

as it turned out that the question was related to MS ACCESS, I found this article which suggests that simply reusing the first command and setting its CommandText to "SELECT @@IDENTITY" should be sufficient.