How to ROLLBACK a transaction when testing using tSQLt

Question

I recently was calling a procedure that contained a rasierror in the code. The raiserror was in a try catch block. Also a BEGIN TRAN was in the same try catch block after

Answer 1

Better to use a BEGIN TRY block after BEGIN TRANSACTION. I did this when I had a similar problem. This is more logical, because in CATCH block I checked IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0 ROLLBACK. This condition doesn't need to be checked if another error is raised before BEGIN TRANSACTION. And in this case you can test your RAISERROR functionality.