extract id of last inserted row

[tendaimare]

i am inserting a row in an acces table but I also want to get the id of the last inserted row so that I can use that value. Any ideas on how I can go about it?

Dim iSql As String = "Insert into CompanyDetails (code,description)





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  Connections.MyDataAdapter(iSql)





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 Public Shared Function MyDataAdapter(ByVal iSql As String) As OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter





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        Dim dt As New DataTable





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        Dim da As New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter(iSql, MyConnection)





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        da.Fill(dt)





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        Return da





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        da.Dispose()





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    End Function

[Pgmer]

Select MAX(ID) From Table

[M.Waqas Aslam]

you can use max() and top() to get the last inserted record in your db table

select max(id) as id from table
'-------------
select top(id) as from table
order by id desc

Hope this will help you

[tendaimare]

i tried the code but it is saying that it has syntax problems

select max(id) as id from table'-------------select top(id) as from tableorder by id descselect max(id) as id from table
'-------------
select top(id) as from table
order by id desc

Dim Extract As String = "select top(ID)  from CompanyDetails order by ID desc"
        Dim dTable As DataTable = New DataTable
        Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter(Extract, Connections.MyConnection)
        da.Fill(dTable)
        id = dTable.Rows(0)("ID").ToString
        MsgBox(id.ToString)

i created the procedure above to see if the code will extract the max(id) but the code is refusing to work. it is saying there is a problem near from clause.

[M.Waqas Aslam]

correct syntax of top() is

select top 1 idno from students
order by idno desc

sorry for above wrong code .

Regards