-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Adam On 21 November 2002 at 11:12:46 -0500 (which was 16:12 where I live) Adam Voigt rearranged electrons to get > But if there are heavy operations on the site, will this not also pick > up a different last inserted id, if in the split milisecond between the > insert and the next mssql_query which has the @@identity say, another > user does an insert? No. It picks up the last identity on that connection. So it does not mater how many other connections and what they are doing. It can only be wrong if you close off the connection and open another one. The other way is to put it all into one SQL statement (as long as you don't use mssql_????? functions in PHP) e.g. (one I used earlier) ==========8<============================================================= begin transaction set nocount on declare @NewId int update item set name = 'Canada Delivery' where itemid = '428' insert into item (ItemTypeId, Name, LastUpdated) values (49,'Mexico Delivery',getutcdate()) set @NewId = @@identity insert into DelArea (itemid,StdEUR, StdGBP, StdUSD, HotEUR, HotGBP, HotUSD) values (@NewId,37,19,45,134,70,70) Update country set DelId = @NewId where itemid = 288 commit select @NewId NewDelId ==========8<============================================================= - -- Ti2GO, _______________________________________________ David | David Elliott | Software Engineer | _________________________| david@elliott.uk.com | PGP Key ID 0x650F4534 | | Do you think someone was BORGED when they made these up? | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 6.5.8ckt http://www.ipgpp.com/ iQA/AwUBPd0TBPmK8eZlD0U0EQL1awCgmS57QwyvS+bz02XsLQtwJOSGSB8AoLmo I9VdgNIsp3GXkzWAX6I1jYpp =UXBQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php