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kaumadee wijewantha
kaumadee wijewantha

Reputation: 51

Retrieve last record of SQL Server table

Here is the my problem: I have a SQL Server database called emp. It has an employee table (with userid int column). I need to retrieve the last record of the userid in employee table with increment userid value + 1. At the moment I did it on the my GUI. So how do I write a sql query for it?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 14649

Answers (4)

Karel
Karel

Reputation: 2212

To have the new userid before saving, create a NextId table.

Before inserting the user, get the new value from NextId:

UserId = SELECT Coalesce(NextId, 0) + 1 from NextId

Then update the NextID table:

UPDATE NEXTID SET NextId = IserID

And then use that value in your user creation code

You can get gaps, there are more complicated methods to avoid them; but I think this will do

Upvotes: -1

JK.
JK.

Reputation: 21808

You shouldn't be manually incrementing the userid column, use an IDENTITY column instead. That will automatically add 1 for you for every new row.

CREATE TABLE Employees (
    UserId INT IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
    UserName NVARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
    // etc add other columns here
)

If you really really have to select the highest userid it is a very simple query:

SELECT MAX(UserId) + 1
FROM Employees

[Edit]

Based on your comments, you should use the SELECT MAX(UserId) + 1 FROM Employees query. But be aware that this does not guarantee the number will be the ID. Normally you would not show an Id value until after the record has been saved to the database.

Upvotes: 1

ashish.chotalia
ashish.chotalia

Reputation: 3746

This will give you last inserted record, If you don't have Identity column.

EXECUTE ('DECLARE GETLAST CURSOR DYNAMIC FOR SELECT * FROM [User]')
OPEN GETLAST
FETCH LAST FROM GETLAST
CLOSE GETLAST
DEALLOCATE GETLAST

If you have set identity than you can use following.

SELECT top(1) ID from [YourTable] order by ID desc

Upvotes: -1

AdaTheDev
AdaTheDev

Reputation: 147224

To return the the record with the highest userid, you can do:

SELECT TOP 1 userid
FROM employee
ORDER BY userid DESC

or...

SELECT MAX(userid)
FROM employee

If your plan is to then increment the userid manually and insert a new record with that new ID, I'd recommend against doing that - what if 2 processes try to do it at the same time? Instead, use an IDENTITY column as userid and let the incrementing be handled for you automatically

Upvotes: 3

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