In order to make this as "sql server independent" as possible, the first thing you need to do is not use extended inserts as that is a MySQL capability. If you are insistent on using the extended inserts, then look at the mysql_info() function. That will return the number of rows inserted, etc. on the last query. -----Original Message----- From: Rene Veerman [mailto:rene7705@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 12:08 AM To: php-general Subject: SQL insert () values (),(),(); how to get auto_increments properly? Hi. I'm looking for the most efficient way to insert several records and retrieve the auto_increment values for the inserted rows, while avoiding crippling concurrency problems caused by multiple php threads doing this on the same table at potentially the same time. I'm using mysql atm, so i thought "stored procedures!".. But alas, mysql docs are very basic. I got the gist of how to setup a stored proc, but how to retrieve a list of auto_increment ids still eludes me; last_insert_id() only returns for the last row i believe. So building an INSERT (...) VALUES (...),(...) at the php end, is probably not the way to go then. But the mysql docs don't show how to pass an array to a stored procedure, so i can't just have the stored proc loop over an array, insert per row, retrieve last_insert_id() into temp table, and return the temp table contents for a list of auto_increment ids for inserted rows. Any clues are greatly appreciated.. I'm looking for the most sql server independent way to do this. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php