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Asked: 2026-05-10T15:34:13+00:00

Suppose I have a stored procedure that manages its own transaction CREATE PROCEDURE theProc

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Suppose I have a stored procedure that manages its own transaction

CREATE PROCEDURE theProc AS BEGIN    BEGIN TRANSACTION  -- do some stuff    IF @ThereIsAProblem     ROLLBACK TRANSACTION   ELSE     COMMIT TRANSACTION END

If I call this proc from an existing transaction, the proc can ROLLBACK the external transaction.

BEGIN TRANSACTION EXEC theProc COMMIT TRANSACTION

How do I properly scope the transaction within the stored procedure, so that the stored procedure does not rollback external transactions?

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  1. The syntax to do this probably varies by database. But in Transact-SQL what you do is check @@TRANCOUNT to see if you are in a transaction. If you are then you want to create a savepoint, and at the end you can just pass through the end of the function (believing a commit or rollback will happen later) or else rollback to your savepoint.

    See Microsoft’s documentation on savepoints for more.

    Support for savepoints is fairly widespread, but I think the mechanism (assuming there is one) for finding out that you’re currently in a transaction will vary quite a bit.

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