>>Hi,
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>>Is there a function in SQL that I can use to return the last value in the identity column of a table? Note that I don't mean SCOPE_IDENTITY() as it returns the value in the same scope. But I want to be able to do this and get the value from any table. For example, in a pseudo code it would be like this:
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>>nLastIdentVal = GetLastIdentVal("tablename")
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>>Thank you in advance for your help.
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>I found it. It is IDENT_CURRENT (Transact-SQL)

It's not the last value in the IDENTITY column but the last IDENTITY value generated for a specified table. To get the last value in the column you'll have to run a query with MAX() on that column.