Databasen - Revisited

[Jonathan Rockway]

> That's an alarmingly common idiom in badly written webby code - either
> that or trying to work out what the inserted ID was by doing SELECT
> MAX(id) just after the insert. Racetastic.

We have the same problem with Microsoft SQL server.  Our ODBC bridge
requires us to SELECT MAX(id) when we want to know the insert ID.

Crappy on paper, but it hasn't caused us any (detectable ;) problems in
production.  MySQL (or Pg) would actually solve the problem for us,
despite being a "tainted brand" (I love that).

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