title: Is there a way to retrieve the autoincrement ID from a prepared statement
body: <p>Is there a way to retrieve the auto generated key from a DB query when using a java query with prepared statements. </p>
  
  <p>For example, I know AutoGeneratedKeys can work as follows. </p>
  
  <pre><code>stmt = conn.createStatement();
  
  stmt.executeUpdate(sql, Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);
  if(returnLastInsertId) {
      ResultSet rs = stmt.getGeneratedKeys();
      rs.next();
      auto_id = rs.getInt(1);
  } 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However. What if I want to do an insert with a prepared Statement. </p>
  
  <pre><code>String sql = "INSERT INTO table (column1, column2) values(?, ?)";
  stmt = conn.prepareStatement(sql);
  
  //this is an error
  stmt.executeUpdate(Statement.RETURN_GENERATED_KEYS);
  if(returnLastInsertId) {
      //this is an error since the above is an error
      ResultSet rs = stmt.getGeneratedKeys();
      rs.next();
      auto_id = rs.getInt(1);
  } 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to do this that I don't know about. It seems from the javadoc that PreparedStatements can't return the Auto Generated ID.</p>