Getting concurrency error on updating record with data adapter

Question

This is my table:

Student:StudentId int PK autoincrement,Name varchar(20)

When i am trying to update last added records then i

Answer 1

When you do the first update, the row is written to the database and it gets a primary key per the AUTOINCREMENT. However, the row inside the DataTabledoes not reflect the changed ID. Therefore, when you try to do the second update, it can't find the row you're intending to update (the ID in the data table doesn't match the ID in the database). Consequently, you get a concurrency error.

That's why, in order to get the ID into the DataTable, you will need to refresh the contents of the DataTable before doing the second update.

To refresh the DataTable, call:

adapter.Fill()

For more information, read Merging DataSet Contents.

Answer 2

As described in the Generating Commands with CommandBuilders MSDN topic, the automatic commands generated by the command builders do not retrieve the identity fields for the inserted records:

You might want to map output parameters back to the updated row of a DataSet. One common task would be retrieving the value of an automatically generated identity field or time stamp from the data source. The DbCommandBuilder will not map output parameters to columns in an updated row by default. In this instance you must specify your command explicitly.

Looking at Retrieving Identity or Autonumber Values topic, it turns out that basically you need to generate the insert command manually.

Here is how you can do that for your table (see the comments inside the code):

using (var connection = new SqlConnection("MyConnectionstring"))
{
    connection.Open();

    // Create data adapter with the specified SelectCommand
    var adapter = new SqlDataAdapter("select * from Student", connection);

    // Build InsertCommand    
    var insertCommand = new SqlCommand(
        "insert into Student (Name) values (@Name) SET @Id = SCOPE_IDENTITY()", 
        connection);
    insertCommand.Parameters.Add("@Name", SqlDbType.VarChar, 20, "Name");
    var parameter = insertCommand.Parameters.Add("@Id", SqlDbType.Int, 0, "StudentId");
    parameter.Direction = ParameterDirection.Output;
    insertCommand.UpdatedRowSource = UpdateRowSource.OutputParameters;
    adapter.InsertCommand = insertCommand;

    // Auto build outher commands
    var builder = new SqlCommandBuilder(adapter);

    // Read the data
    var dt = new DataTable();
    adapter.Fill(dt);

    // Insert a new record
    var row = dt.NewRow();
    row["Name"] = "Abc";
    dt.Rows.Add(row);

    adapter.Update(dt);

    // Update the just inserted record
    row["Name"] = "Pqr";
    adapter.Update(dt);

    connection.Close();
}