How to get the primary key of the last row inserted into the table

Question

I am using multiview index to insert the news details. In the first view the user can enter details of news which is then inserted into db on clicking the next button the se

Answer 1

As part of your INSERT statement (into the first News table), after it runs, execute

SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY()

and return NewsId value to caller.

Ref.

Answer 2

A separate SQL statement

SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY()

Or the OUTPUT clause

INSERT MyTable (...=
OUTPUT INSERTED.KeyCol
VALUES (...) --Or SELECT ... FROM Another table)

Edit:

• change your insert statement to match mine
• change .ExecuteNonQuery() to blah = xxx.ExecuteScalar()