Addding an auto increment column in one table to another table

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Hi all,

I am using VS2008 and sqlserver 2008

I have two tables users and user_events . users table has a auto increment user_id .I want to retrieve that user_id and insert into user_events table.can anyone guide me through this . thanks in advance

Posted 4-Nov-12 3:43am

Raghavanand

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ridoy 4-Nov-12 9:49am

don't expect code here,first try with google,there you found lot of links regarding this..

Nelek 4-Nov-12 11:15am

what have you tried?[^]
How to ask a question?[^]

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You can use SCOPE_IDENTITY() for returning auto increment value.

Posted 4-Nov-12 7:16am

Khalid Farhan

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bbirajdar · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-04T05:31:00

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INSERT INTO Table2 (user_id)
VALUES (SELECT user_id from Table1 WHERE <condition> )

More info here
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/08/15/sql-server-insert-data-from-one-table-to-another-table-insert-into-select-select-into-table/[^]
http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_select_into.asp[^]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4823880/sql-server-select-into-variable[^]