assign a value in a table from another table

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Hey everyone.

I am developing a application in c# where you insert values from textboxes to two different MYSQL tables. In table 1 I have a employeeid which is auto incremented when a new record is created. In table 2 I have a field of the same name and I want to assign it the corresponding id from table1. I'm not sure how to do this. Do I use a join??

Any advice would be very much appreciated

Posted 8-Apr-13 9:57am

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ZurdoDev 8-Apr-13 17:00pm

I believe in MySQL LAST_INSERT_ID() will give you the last ID. So, if you had 2 insert statements, after the first one which inserts into table1 store LAST_INSERT_ID() into a variable and then use that variable to insert into table 2.

Member 9611735 8-Apr-13 17:52pm

You are wonderful! thank you, your solution works a treat

ZurdoDev 9-Apr-13 7:30am

Good to hear. I'll post it as a solution then.

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ZurdoDev · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-09T01:30:00

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I believe in MySQL LAST_INSERT_ID() will give you the last ID. So, if you had 2 insert statements, after the first one which inserts into table1 store LAST_INSERT_ID() into a variable and then use that variable to insert into table 2.

Posted 9-Apr-13 1:30am

ZurdoDev