Executing a stored procedure inside BEGIN/END TRANSACTION

Question

If I create a Stored Procedure in SQL and call it (EXEC spStoredProcedure) within the BEGIN/END TRANSACTION, does this other stored procedure also fall into the

Answer 1

As Chris mentioned, you should be careful about rolling the transaction back.

Specifically this:

IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 ROLLBACK

is not always what you want. You could do something like this

IF(@@TRANCOUNT = 1) ROLLBACK TRAN
ELSE IF(@@TRANCOUNT > 1) COMMIT TRAN
RETURN @error

This way, the calling proc can inspect the return value from the stored procedure and determine if it wants to commit anyways or continue to bubble up the error.

The reason is that 'COMMIT' will just decrement your transaction counter. Once it decrements the transaction counter to zero, then an actual commit will occur.