TSQL Try / Catch within Transaction or vice versa?

Question

I\'m writing a script that will delete records from a number of tables, but before it deletes it must return a count for a user to confirm before committing.

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Answer 1

In addition to the good advice by M.Ali and dean above, a little bit help for those looking to use the new(er) TRY CATCH THROW paradigm in SQL SERVER:

(I couldn't easily find the complete syntax, so adding it here)

GIST : HERE

Sample stored procedure code here (from my gist):

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
 
CREATE PROC [dbo].[pr_ins_test]
@CompanyID INT
AS
 
SET NOCOUNT ON
 
BEGIN
 
    DECLARE @PreviousConfigID INT
    
    BEGIN TRY
        BEGIN TRANSACTION MYTRAN; -- Give the transaction a name
        SELECT 1/0  -- Generates divide by zero error causing control to jump into catch
 
        PRINT '>> COMMITING'
        COMMIT TRANSACTION MYTRAN;
    END TRY
    BEGIN CATCH
        IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
        BEGIN 
            PRINT '>> ROLLING BACK'
            ROLLBACK TRANSACTION MYTRAN; -- The semi-colon is required (at least in SQL 2012)
            
            
        END; -- I had to put a semicolon to avoid error near THROW
        THROW
    END CATCH
END