How to get id of newly inserted record using Excel VBA?

Question

Seems a common enough problem this, but most solutions refer to concatenating multiple SQL commands, something which I believe can\'t be done with ADO/VBA (I\'ll be glad to

Answer 1

If the artificial key is an autonumber, you can use @@identity.

Note that with both these examples, the transaction is isolated from other events, so the identity returned is the one just inserted. You can test this by pausing the code at Debug.Print db.RecordsAffected or Debug.Print lngRecs and inserting a record manually into Table1, continue the code and note that the identity returned is not that of the record inserted manually, but of the previous record inserted by code.

DAO Example

'Reference: Microsoft DAO 3.6 Object Library '
Dim db As DAO.Database
Dim rs As DAO.Recordset

Set db = CurrentDb

db.Execute ("INSERT INTO table1 (field1, Crdate ) " _
            & "VALUES ( 46, #" & Format(Date, "yyyy/mm/dd") & "#)")
Debug.Print db.RecordsAffected
Set rs = db.OpenRecordset("SELECT @@identity AS NewID FROM table1")
Debug.Print rs.Fields("NewID")

ADO Example

Dim cn As New ADODB.Connection
Dim rs As New ADODB.Recordset

Set cn = CurrentProject.Connection

cn.Execute ("INSERT INTO table1 (field1, Crdate ) " _
            & "VALUES ( 46, #" & Format(Date, "yyyy/mm/dd") & "#)"), lngRecs
Debug.Print lngRecs
rs.Open "SELECT @@identity AS NewID FROM table1", cn
Debug.Print rs.Fields("NewID")