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aneeshattingal:<br />
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I'm going to accept the answer above...seen your replies for years on EE and trust you...<br />
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Now...big question...<br />
You have a link that explains &quot;Scopes&quot; so I can ubderstand what you just said? &nbsp;;)
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aneeshattingal:

I'm going to accept the answer above...seen your replies for years on EE and trust you...

Now...big question...
You have a link that explains "Scopes" so I can ubderstand what you just said?  ;)

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I've noticed at times that using<br />
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set @VariablenID = SCOPE_IDENTITY() &nbsp;will work when <br />
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set @PaymentTransactionID = @@Identity can give me problems and bomb out in my .Net web pages on the output.<br />
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Is one better than the other and what's the difference?
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I've noticed at times that using

set @VariablenID = SCOPE_IDENTITY()  will work when 

set @PaymentTransactionID = @@Identity can give me problems and bomb out in my .Net web pages on the output.

Is one better than the other and what's the difference?

SQL Server $$Identity

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.