Last Inserted row

I am trying to access the row which was just inserted into a table. Will the following statements be equivalent of each other?

STATEMENT 1:
SELECT JobNumber
from tblCustServiceHistoryHdr
where ServiceType='On-site' AND ServiceStatus = 'NEW' AND DateModified =(SELECT MAX(DateModified) from tblCustServiceHistoryHdr) /* i thought by using DateModified i would get the last modified row*/

STATEMENT 2:
SELECT JobNumber
from inserted
where ServiceType='On-site' AND ServiceStatus = 'NEW' /* i don't need the DateModified criteria here since i am extracting from the INSERTED table*/Would you like to know the last row inserted by your session, or by all sessions ?

About statement 2, remember that the pseudo-table "inserted" can contain many rows. In that case, select jobnumber from inserted is still not an exact answer to your question.

Maybe if you us a little more info about your objective, forum members might have some ideas to help you out.|||Basically there will be many ppl inserting to this table and we need to extract the specific rows that they have inserted and then update them to another table. This will be happening later on.

But for now I will only need to know the inserted row for my session.|||How about introducing a new column to your table which will hold the time stamp for new rows inserted?|||I thought the DateModified column acted like a timestamp...u know everytime there r updates to that particular row the DateModified column is altered using getdate().|||Why not put an Identity Seed field on your table ?

Then do the insert through a stored procedure and pass back the identity field value.

By the way, @.@.IDENTITY returns the last generated value for the newly inserted row.|||What do you want to know the inserted row for ?
Might help us with a solution|||Originally posted by gayamantra
Basically there will be many ppl inserting to this table and we need to extract the specific rows that they have inserted and then update them to another table. This will be happening later on.

But for now I will only need to know the inserted row for my session.
Still confused, your objective is to trigger some action for all the rows that were inserted in your table. To my point of view, your STATEMENT 2 is exactly what you need. I'm still confused with your idea of getting the LAST row inserted, as you will apparently want to do something for ALL rows inserted.