@@TRANCOUNT (Transact-SQL)
Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure Synapse Analytics Analytics Platform System (PDW) Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric
Returns the number of BEGIN TRANSACTION statements that have occurred on the current connection.
Transact-SQL syntax conventions
Syntax
@@TRANCOUNT
Note
This syntax is not supported by serverless SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics.
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
See Also
BEGIN TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
COMMIT TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
ROLLBACK TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
System Functions (Transact-SQL)