As we know that MySQL LAST_INSERT_ID() function returns the latest generated sequence number but in case of multiple row-insert it would return the sequence number generated by the foremost inserted row.
Example
mysql> Insert into Student(Name) values('Ram'),('Mohan'),('Aryan'); Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.03 sec) Records: 3 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0
The query above inserts three values in Student table with the help of Multiple-row insert query. The value of Column ‘Id’ can be checked with the help of the following query −
mysql> Select * from Student; +----+-------+ | Id | Name | +----+-------+ | 1 | Raman | | 2 | Rahul | | 3 | Ram | | 4 | Mohan | | 5 | Aryan | +----+-------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
It means that Last_Insert_Id() must return 5 as output but as we can see it returns the value 3 as follows −
mysql> Select Last_Insert_Id(); +------------------+ | Last_Insert_Id() | +------------------+ | 3 | +------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
It returns the value 3 because 3 is the value of foremost inserted row with above multiple row-insert query.