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Asked: 2026-05-15T11:05:12+00:00

i have some questions about a transaction in the trigger, for which I haven’t

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i have some questions about a transaction in the trigger, for which I haven’t found an answer yet.

CREATE TRIGGER A_AI ON A
AFTER INSERT AS

    BEGIN TRY --is the try block 1 transaction ? or do I have to begin the transaction?

        --BEGIN TRAN: may I start the transaction like this?
        -- SOME DANGEROUS OPERATIONS

        COMMIT --has this sense here?
    END TRY
    BEGIN CATCH --silent catch no rasing errors.
        ROLLBACK TRANSACTION -- does it work without BEGIN TRANSACTION? if so, is it the whole try block?
    END CATCH

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  1. Editorial Team

    A trigger always executes in the context of a transaction – every DML statement operates within a transaction. This is normally hidden from view by the fact that Implicit Transactions are set to commit automatically in SQL Server.

    If you issue a rollback from within a trigger, this will (as always with rollback) rollback all transactions, whether nested or not.

    In general, you wouldn’t commit within a trigger, unless (as in your commented out example) you’re opening a nested transaction explicitly.

    If there are other aspects to your question, I’m unable to work out what they are from your posted example. Although I’m always a fan of people posting actual SQL when asking SQL questions, sometimes a little commentary, or a bullet-point list of actual questions can help.

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