last-insert-id

You could store the last insert id in a variable : INSERT INTO table1 (title,userid) VALUES (‘test’, 1); SET @last_id_in_table1 = LAST_INSERT_ID(); INSERT INTO table2 (parentid,otherid,userid) VALUES (@last_id_in_table1, 4, 1); Or get the max id from table1 (EDIT: Warning. See note in comments from Rob Starling about possible errors from race conditions when using the … Read more