Insert into table returning primary key (auto number) in resultset

Question

Hi,
I'm connecting to Oracle 10g via JDBC (ojdbc14.jar).
My SQL statement is as follows:
INSERT into Student (studentName, phone, email, address) values ('Jason', '12345678', 'test', 'test');
SELECT Student_studentId_SEQ.NEXTVAL FROM DUAL;
Fyi -The Student table has a trigger to support the generation of a primary key (integer) based on a sequence when a new record is inserted.
What the above will do (from the Java app point of view) is to create a Student record and automatically select the student ID so that the student ID can be accessed via the resultset in Java.
I'm getting error "ORA-00911: invalid character". Can you please help?
Regards,
Jason
Edited by: user10394130 on Oct 13, 2008 2:40 AM

Answer 1

Yes, I'm referring to the studentId, which is generated via the Student table trigger on insert of a new record.
I've now verified that the following SQL works and it is "printing" the correct studentId.
DECLARE seqNbr_studentId NUMBER(12) := 0;
BEGIN
INSERT into Student (studentName, phone, email, address) values ('Jason', '12345678', 'test', 'test')
RETURNING studentId INTO seqNbr_studentId;
dbms_output.put_line(seqNbr_studentId);
END;
--> This prints the correct value of seqNbr_studentId that has been generated by the trigger. This is good.
However, I would like the studentId to be in a resultset (so that I can access this via Java Resultset.getInt(1) ), for example:
DECLARE seqNbr_studentId NUMBER(12) := 0;
BEGIN
INSERT into Student (studentName, phone, email, address) values ('Jason', '12345678', 'test', 'test')
RETURNING studentId INTO seqNbr_studentId;
SELECT seqNbr_studentId FROM DUMMYTABLE;
END;
Is this possible?
What I'm trying to do is to achieve the effect in SQL Server where I can simply do an SQL command "SELECT @@IDENTITY" where it returns the auto number from the newly inserted record.
Regards,
Jason
Edited by: user10394130 on Oct 13, 2008 2:08 AM
Edited by: user10394130 on Oct 13, 2008 2:56 AM