Cant get @@IDENTITY

Question

I have a table TESTTABLE which has an identity column as its primary key. Now i have an INSERT statement which I want to execute and then get the key generated for the new row. So what I did is :
String sqlStatement = "INSERT INTO TIMECARDBATCH ( name, desc ) VALUES ( 'TOR', 'Toronto' )";
slqStatement += " SELECT @@IDENTITY";
Connection cx = null;
Statement stmt = null;
ResultSet rs = null;
int intReturnValue = -1;
try {
cx.prepareCall( sqlStatement );
stmt.execute();
rs = stmt.getResultSet();
if (rs != null) {
rs.next();
intReturnValue = rs.getInt(1);
Whats happening is that I am getting rs as null. As a result I cant get the identity generated. Any reason why this is happening?
Application Server: JBoss 3.2.3
Database: MS SQL Server 2000
JDBC Driver: MS SQL Server JDBC Driver
Thanks

Answer 1

Actually, if I read that right, I'd be surprised if it even works. Are you smothering exceptions?
You're trying to execute this: INSERT INTO TIMECARDBATCH ( name, desc ) VALUES ( 'TOR', 'Toronto' ) SELECT @@IDENTITY"I doubt that's legal SQL.
You can either execute two separate statements, or maybe make them part of a batch.
Also, I'm not sure why you're even using CallableStatement. It looks like you should just be using a PreparedStatement. And inside the "VALUES" part you should just have (?, ?) and then use PrepearedStatement's setString() to set those values. That keeps you out of trouble having to deal with escaping special characters.