Sql Server return the value of identity column after insert statement

Question

Is it possible in sql server using stored procedure to return the identity column value in a table against which some values are inserted? For example using stored procedure

Answer 1

You can explicitly get back Identity columns using SqlServer's OUTPUT clause: Assuming you have an identity/auto-increment column called ID:

$sql='INSERT INTO [xyz].[myTable] (Field1, Field2, Field3) OUTPUT Inserted.ID VALUES  (1, 2, '3')';

Note that in Perl DBI you would then execute the INSERT statement, just like it was a SELECT. And capture the output like it was a SELECT

$sth->execute($sql);
@row=$sth->fetchrow_array; #Only 1 val in 1 row returned
print "Inserted ID: ", $row[0], "\n";

Presumably this is preferable because it doesn't require another request.