MySql: Insert a row and get the content

No, it's not possible in MySQL (unlike PostgreSQL, SQL Server and PL/SQL in Oracle).

You will have to do it in separate queries.

Execute your insert statement and then you can do this:

SELECT * FROM `items` WHERE `id`= LAST_INSERT_ID()

You can do this using multiple statements if you like to choose that route. Firstly when you connect to your database make sure that multiple statements is set to true:

var connection = mysql.createConnection({
    host: databaseHost,
    user: databaseUser,
    password: databasePassword,
    database: databaseName,
    multipleStatements: true
});

Then you can just define your sql as:

var sql = "your insert statement; your select statement";

Just separate individual statements using the semi colon. Your select result will be results[1] in this example.

you can call a stored procedure which will perform the insert and return a resultset in a single call from your app layer to mysql:

Stored procedure call

mysql> call insert_user('bar');
+---------+----------+
| user_id | username |
+---------+----------+
|       1 | bar      |
+---------+----------+
1 row in set (0.02 sec)

$sqlCmd = sprintf("call insert_user('%s')", ...);

Simple example:

drop table if exists users;
create table users
(
user_id int unsigned not null auto_increment primary key,
username varchar(32) unique not null
)
engine=innodb;


drop procedure if exists insert_user;

delimiter #

create procedure insert_user
(
in p_username varchar(32)
)
begin
declare v_user_id int unsigned default 0;

 insert into users (username) values (p_username);

 set v_user_id = last_insert_id();

 -- do more stuff with v_user_id e.g. logs etc...

 select * from users where user_id = v_user_id;

end#

delimiter ;

call insert_user('bar');