Site Seeder Question: If I use @@IDENTITY to return the last inserted IDENTITY value, then this works up to the point that I create a trigger on the table that is being affected that also inserts a row into a table with an IDENTITY column.
How can I get around this?
You can use scope_identity() I believe. In my experience its much better better to use scope_identity
If you are wanting to return the created identity of a specific table you can use IDENT_CURRENT( 'table_name' )
IDENT_CURRENT() has its own sets of issues (specifically related to transactions) and I haven't come across any situation where I would need it.
@@IDENTITY returns the last identity value in the current connection. IDENT_CURRENT returns the last in the table. It's not the same thing as @@IDENTITY at all.
Use SCOPE_IDENTITY() instead of @@IDENTITY if you want to ignore values generated by triggers.
