My database has a parent table with an auto-incrementing primary key identity 'ID', and a normal 'TIMESTAMP column'. I have child tables with a foreign key that refer to the parent 'ID' column.
I want to write a stored procedure that inserts a new column into both the parent and child databases. How would I set the child 'ID' column to equal the new auto-incremented parent 'ID' column? Does this require a separate:
SELECT TOP 1 * FROM PARENT_TABLE
Or is there another way?
You can retrieve it from SCOPE_IDENTITY(). For example:
declare @myid int
INSERT INTO table (field) VALUES ('value')
SELECT @myid = SCOPE_IDENTITY()
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