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Asked: 2026-05-30T08:21:25+00:00

According to msdn : the commit syntax is : However when I omit the

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According to msdn : the commit syntax is :

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However when I omit the tran/transaction words – it does compile and run with NO errors.enter image description here

How can it be working ?

Does it do something else instead ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The COMMIT in question is not actually COMMIT you think. See COMMIT WORK

    COMMIT [ WORK ]
    [ ; ]

    Remarks

    This statement functions identically to COMMIT TRANSACTION, except COMMIT TRANSACTION accepts a user-defined transaction name. This COMMIT syntax, with or without specifying the optional keyword WORK, is compatible with SQL-92.

    So COMMIT by itself is COMMIT WORK which is identical to COMMIT TRANSACTION.
    Ditto for ROLLBACK [ WORK ]

    After comment, 

    BEGIN TRANSACTION gbn
SELECT 1
COMMIT gbn -- fail
GO
BEGIN TRANSACTION gbn
SELECT 2
COMMIT TRAN gbn -- works
GO
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