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Can you retrieve the value of an auto-increment column during MySQL insert?

Experts,

If I have a table which has 3 columns (ID, firstname, lastname), where 'ID' is an auto-increment data type is there any way to retrieve the auto-increment value during row creation?

Considering the following statement:

INSERT INTO table (firstname, lastname) VALUES ('Bob', 'Roberts');

Can I find out what the value of 'ID' is when the statement above is executed?

Cheers!

Is there any way to get th

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PortletPaul

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evibesmusic

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@PortletPaul:

Thank you.

So using PHP I would assume that the following would place the last auto-increment value into my desired session variable?

$sql = "INSERT INTO table (firstname, lastname) VALUES ('Bob', 'Roberts')";
$query = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Could not run query: " . $sql . "<br />\n" . mysql_error () );
$last_id = mysql_insert_id();
$_SESSION['last_id'] = $last_id;

PortletPaul

Regret to say I don't use PHP so I cannot verify that.

& as I'm not a PHP person I would wonder:
What guarantees that no other sql is being executed between $query and $last_id? (assuming multi-user access)

evibesmusic

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@PortletPaul:

I understand the concern.

I am using the InnoDB DB type so I know that row level locking is supported but, that doesn't necessarily prevent a dirty read I guess?

This may not be a solid programming practice but, I'd still like to know if my code above would work?

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