RETURNING clause

Question

I have a table that has a PK value that is generated by a sequence that fetches sys_guid() for the value via an insert trigger.
How can i insert a record and get the pk value that was generated in one statement?
I know about the RETURNING clause and how it works. There are lots of examples out on google about using the RETURNING clause in a PL/SQL block.
My problem is that i am not writing a stored proc or function. I'm just executing SQL through a client (Aqua). So i don't have variables and bindings or anything like that.
What i want is to write something like the following:
INSERT INTO CONTACTS.TBLPEOPLE(PPLKEEPCONFIDENTIAL, PPLNAMELAST, PPLNAMEFIRST, PPLNAMEPREFIX, PPLNAMEMIDDLE, PPLNAMESUFFIX, PPLNAMEPREFERRED, PPLACTIVE, ADTUSERID, ADTDATELASTUPDATE)
VALUES('1', 'Doe', 'John', 'Mr', 'Q', '', '', '1', 'kg', SYSDATE)
RETURN PPLGUID
and for the result to be - 1 record inserted, here is the PPLGUID that was generated - '12CD-23FBBD-23222'
Can this be done?

Answer 1

My problem is that i am not writing a stored proc or functionYou don't have to. Can't you just wrap the INSERT/RETURNING into an anonymous pl/sql block?
SQL> create sequence t_seq start with 42;
Sequence created.
SQL> declare
  2     l_seq number;
  3  begin
  4     insert into t values (t_seq.nextval)
  5        returning n into l_seq;
  6     dbms_output.put_line('generated ' || l_seq);
  7  end;
  8  /
generated 42
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.Edited by: SomeoneElse on Jul 30, 2009 12:27 PM
(working example)