Adds a way to retrieve values from columns that contain automatically generated values. JDBC 3.0 addresses the common need to obtain the value of an autogenerated or autoincremented key.
To inform the driver that you want to retrieve the auto-generated keys, pass the constant Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS as the second parameter of the Statement.execute() method. After you have executed the statement, call Statement.getGeneratedKeys() to retrieve the generated keys. The result set contains a row for each generated key retrieved.
Adaptive Server cannot return a result set of generated
keys. If you execute a batch of insert commands,
invoking Statement.getGeneratedKeys() returns only the
value of the last generated key.
For more information about retrieving auto-generated keys, including a sample code, search for “retrieving automatically generated keys” on the Sun Microsystems Web site.
