ROLLBACK WORK (Transact-SQL)

Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance SQL database in Microsoft Fabric

Rolls back a user-specified transaction to the beginning of the transaction.

Transact-SQL syntax conventions

Syntax

ROLLBACK [ WORK ]
[ ; ]

Remarks

This statement functions identically to ROLLBACK TRANSACTION except that ROLLBACK TRANSACTION accepts a user-defined transaction name. With or without specifying the optional WORK keyword, this ROLLBACK syntax is ISO-compatible.

When there are inner transactions, ROLLBACK WORK always rolls back to the outermost BEGIN TRANSACTION statement and decrements the @@TRANCOUNT system function to 0.

Permissions

Requires membership in the public role.

Related content

• BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
• BEGIN TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
• COMMIT TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
• COMMIT WORK (Transact-SQL)
• ROLLBACK TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
• SAVE TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
• Transaction locking and row versioning guide