@@TRANCOUNT (Transact-SQL)
Returns the number of active transactions for the current connection.
Syntax
@@TRANCOUNT
Return Types
integer
Remarks
The BEGIN TRANSACTION statement increments @@TRANCOUNT by 1. ROLLBACK TRANSACTION decrements @@TRANCOUNT to 0, except for ROLLBACK TRANSACTION savepoint_name, which does not affect @@TRANCOUNT. COMMIT TRANSACTION or COMMIT WORK decrement @@TRANCOUNT by 1.
Examples
A. Showing the effects of the BEGIN and COMMIT statements
The following example shows the effect that nested BEGIN and COMMIT statements have on the @@TRANCOUNT variable.
PRINT @@TRANCOUNT
-- The BEGIN TRAN statement will increment the
-- transaction count by 1.
BEGIN TRAN
PRINT @@TRANCOUNT
BEGIN TRAN
PRINT @@TRANCOUNT
-- The COMMIT statement will decrement the transaction count by 1.
COMMIT
PRINT @@TRANCOUNT
COMMIT
PRINT @@TRANCOUNT
--Results
--0
--1
--2
--1
--0
B. Showing the effects of the BEGIN and ROLLBACK statements
The following example shows the effect that nested BEGIN TRAN and ROLLBACK statements have on the @@TRANCOUNT variable.
PRINT @@TRANCOUNT
-- The BEGIN TRAN statement will increment the
-- transaction count by 1.
BEGIN TRAN
PRINT @@TRANCOUNT
BEGIN TRAN
PRINT @@TRANCOUNT
-- The ROLLBACK statement will clear the @@TRANCOUNT variable
-- to 0 because all active transactions will be rolled back.
ROLLBACK
PRINT @@TRANCOUNT
--Results
--0
--1
--2
--0