INSERT, and get the auto-incremented value

Question

Consider the following table:

create table language (
    id integer generated always as identity (START WITH 1, INCREMENT BY 1),
    name long varchar,
             


        

Answer 1

You could execute this statement (NB, not 100% sure this syntax is correct for Derby:

SELECT TOP 1 id FROM language ORDER BY id DESC

To find the last inserted ID.

Alternative for Derby:

SELECT MAX(id) from language

Obviously this will only be accurate if no other inserts (including inserts by other users) have happened between your insert and select.

See also this discussion:

Answer 2

Through plain SQL:

 insert into language(name) values ('value');
 SELECT IDENTITY_VAL_LOCAL();

See the manual for details: http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.7/ref/rrefidentityvallocal.html

When doing this from a Java class (through JDBC) you can use getGeneratedKeys() after "requesting" them with the approriate executeUpdate() method.

Answer 3

You use the JDBC method

st.execute(sql, Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);
ResultSet keys = st.getGeneratedKeys();

as documented in the Derby manual.

See also Javadocs: DatabaseMetaData#supportsGetGeneratedKeys() and Statement#getGeneratedKeys()