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Asked: 2026-05-11T05:09:53+00:00

I want to run an update query against a production database and as good

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I want to run an update query against a production database and as good little developer I am trying to make it as safe as possible. I am looking to do the following

BEGIN TRANSACTION     UPDATE table_x SET col_y = 'some_value'     .     .     . IF (@@error <> 0) BEGIN     ROLLBACK END ELSE BEGIN     COMMIT END

The above should work in SQL Server but I need this to work against a MySQL database.

EDIT: Sorry, there is more than 1 statement to execute. Yes I am aware of not needing to wrap a single query in a transaction.

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  1. I don’t think this is necessary as there is the concept of implicit commit/rollback.

    From MySQL docs:

    By default, MySQL starts the session for each new connection with autocommit mode enabled, so MySQL does a commit after each SQL statement if that statement did not return an error. If a statement returns an error, the commit or rollback behavior depends on the error. See Section 13.6.13, “InnoDB Error Handling”.

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