Correct use of transactions in SQL Server
I have 2 commands and need both of them executed correctly or none of them executed. So I think I need a transaction, but I don't know how to use it correctly.
What's the problem with the following script?
BEGIN TRANSACTION [Tran1]
INSERT INTO [Test].[dbo].[T1]
([Title], [AVG])
VALUES ('Tidd130', 130), ('Tidd230', 230)
UPDATE [Test].[dbo].[T1]
SET [Title] = N'az2' ,[AVG] = 1
WHERE [dbo].[T1].[Title] = N'az'
COMMIT TRANSACTION [Tran1]
GO
The INSERT
command is executed, but the UPDATE
command has a problem.
How can I implement this to rollback both commands if any of them have an error in execution?
Add a try/catch block, if the transaction succeeds it will commit the changes, if the transaction fails the transaction is rolled back:
BEGIN TRANSACTION [Tran1]
BEGIN TRY
INSERT INTO [Test].[dbo].[T1] ([Title], [AVG])
VALUES ('Tidd130', 130), ('Tidd230', 230)
UPDATE [Test].[dbo].[T1]
SET [Title] = N'az2' ,[AVG] = 1
WHERE [dbo].[T1].[Title] = N'az'
COMMIT TRANSACTION [Tran1]
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
ROLLBACK TRANSACTION [Tran1]
END CATCH
At the beginning of stored procedure one should put SET XACT_ABORT ON to instruct Sql Server to automatically rollback transaction in case of error. If ommited or set to OFF one needs to test @@ERROR after each statement or use TRY ... CATCH rollback block.