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

Re: "I have tried to get @@IDENTITY working, but this always returns 0 using the code below."

Your code sends SQL and SQL2 through different connection objects. I don't think @@identity will return anything other than zero unless you ask from the same connection where you executed your INSERT statement.

Try changing this:

myRecordset.Open SQL2, dbConnectionString, adOpenStatic, adLockReadOnly

to:

myRecordset.Open SQL2, databaseConnection, adOpenStatic, adLockReadOnly