>Hi everybody,
>
>We're using SPT and then a special program to make cursor updatable. I see this code to get the last inserted value
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> mysqlexec("select @@identity as keyval",'csrKeyVal', program())
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>which doesn't look entirely correct to me - who guarantees that by doing a separate query you'll get the value of the record you just inserted and not someone else in between?
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>Is there a better way to get the latest value?
>
>Thanks in advance.

Of course it is not correct. You cannot even guarantee it doing in the same query batch. There are other and reliable ways like:

select scope_identitity()

select ... from inserted

output clause

Cetin