getGeneratedKeys() after PreparedStatement.executeBatch()

Question

I want to INSERT several rows using a PreparedStatement:

ps = con.prepareStatement(query,PreparedStatement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);

for(Element e:listOfElements){
    ps.setString(1,this.col_val_1);
    ps.setString(2,this.col_val_2);
    ps.setInt(3,this.col_val_3);

    ps.addBatch();
}

ps.executeBatch();
ResultSet rs = ps.getGeneratedKeys();

At this point, whent I expect to get the PK's generated for each INSERT, I get this SQLServerException:

com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The statement must be executed before any results can be obtained.

I expected to get a ResultSet with one row for each insert performed, so I could get each PK generated.

Am I expecting wrong? Am I doing something wrong? Can it be done in a different way using batch execution?

Answer 1

Support for getGeneratedKeys() on batch execution is implementation defined according to the JDBC spec. Most likely the SQL Server driver does not support it for batch execution.

I tried to look for an explicit statement on the Microsoft site, but couldn't find it. This old (2007) forum post on MSDN does state that it isn't supported: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldataaccess/thread/6cbf5eea-e5b9-4519-8e86-f4b65ce3f8e1