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C program to get the last row id of a database table in SQLite

Here, we are going to write a C program to get the last row id of a database table in SQLite.
By Nidhi Last updated : March 10, 2024

Prerequisites

The following packages need to be installed in the ubuntu machine for Sqlite connectivity using the C program.

sudo apt install sqlite3
sudo apt install gcc
sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev

Problem Solution

In this program, we will insert records into the employee table using source code and then print the last row id on the console screen.

Program/Source Code

The source code to get the last row id of a database table in SQLite is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully on Ubuntu 20.04.

//C program to get the last row id of a database table in SQLite.

#include <sqlite3.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    sqlite3* db_ptr;
    sqlite3_stmt* stmt;
    char* errMesg = 0;

    int ret = 0;
    int last_row_id = 0;

    ret = sqlite3_open("MyDb.db", &db_ptr);

    if (ret != SQLITE_OK) {
        printf("Database opening error\n");
    }

    char* sql_stmt = "INSERT INTO Employee VALUES(201, 'Vikas', 25000);"
                     "INSERT INTO Employee VALUES(202,  'Varun', 30000);";

    ret = sqlite3_exec(db_ptr, sql_stmt, 0, 0, &errMesg);

    if (ret != SQLITE_OK) {

        printf("Error in SQL statement: %s\n", errMesg);

        sqlite3_free(errMesg);
        sqlite3_close(db_ptr);

        return 1;
    }

    last_row_id = sqlite3_last_insert_rowid(db_ptr);
    printf("Last row id in employee table is: %d\n", last_row_id);

    sqlite3_close(db_ptr);
    return 0;
}

Output

$ gcc rowid.c -o rowid -lsqlite3 -std=c99
$ ./rowid 
Last row id in employee table is: 2

In the above program, we included the sqlite3.h header file to uses SQLite related functions. Here, we inserted two records into the employee table in the "MyDb.db" database using sqlite3_exec() by passing a specified SQL statement. Here, we used the sqlite3_last_insert_rowid() function to get the last row id and print row id on the console screen.

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