How to get last identity row Inserted when using instead of trigger

When I insert into tables using instead of triggers, @@Identity, IDENT_CURRENT('Table') and SCOPE_IDENTITY() return null. How I can get the last identity of inserted row?

In your instead of trigger, you definitely can get the inserted value... but not until after you've performed the insert.

USE tempdb;
GO

CREATE TABLE dbo.SmellThis
(
  id INT IDENTITY(1,1),
  name VARCHAR(32)
);
GO

CREATE TRIGGER dbo.SmellThis_First
ON dbo.SmellThis
INSTEAD OF INSERT
AS
BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    DECLARE @ids TABLE(id INT);

    IF NOT EXISTS 
    (
      SELECT 1 FROM sys.objects AS o
        INNER JOIN inserted AS i
        ON o.name = i.name
    )
    INSERT dbo.SmellThis(name)  
      OUTPUT inserted.id INTO @ids
      SELECT name 
      FROM inserted;

    SELECT id FROM @ids;
END
GO

INSERT dbo.SmellThis(name) SELECT 'Remus';
GO

Results:

id
----
1

Now clean up:

DROP TABLE dbo.SmellThis;

As an aside, you should never, ever, ever be using @@IDENTITY or IDENT_CURRENT() anyway. And SCOPE_IDENTITY should be reserved for situations where you know only one row can ever be inserted. A common misconception with triggers is that they fire per row, like in other platforms, but in SQL Server they fire per operation - so a multi-row insert using VALUES(),(),() or INSERT...SELECT - which SCOPE_IDENTITY would you be setting to your variable?

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