FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Shaun Craig
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 6:01 AM
> 
> At present i've taken out my select @@identity and replaced it with
> a select top 1 ... order by ...desc, this also gets me my identity,
> its safe for each 'Event' as another 'Event' from the same device
> cant be processed till this 'Event' would be finished.
> 
> I dont use any stored procedures as code will have to be converted
> to connect to mysql eventually.

Your code will be standards-conformant and faster if you use 'select
max(ID)' instead of "top 1 ... order by".  It's much less work for the
server, especially if (as should be the case) the ID is the first
element of a unique index.  

--jkl

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