SA0266 : ROLLBACK statement without corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION statement

The topic describes the SA0266 analysis rule.

Message

ROLLBACK statement without corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION statement

Description

The rule checks T-SQL code and reports ROLLBACK statements, which have no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION statements.

Issuing a ROLLBACK TRANSACTION when @@TRANCOUNT is zero results in an error.

How to fix

Review transaction statements and code paths to make sure that the ROLLBACK statement has a corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION statement.

Scope

The rule has a Batch scope and is applied only on the SQL script.

Parameters

Rule has no parameters.

Remarks

The rule does not need Analysis Context or SQL Connection.

Effort To Fix
5 minutes per issue.
Categories

Design Rules, Bugs

Additional Information
Example Test SQL
SQL
Copy
 1ROLLBACK
 2
 3BEGIN TRANSACTION
 4
 5ROLLBACK
 6
 7COMMIT 
 8
 9ROLLBACK
10
11BEGIN TRANSACTION
12ROLLBACK
13
14ROLLBACK
Analysis Results
  Message Line Column
1 SA0266 : ROLLBACK statement without corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION statement. 1 0
2 SA0266 : ROLLBACK statement without corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION statement. 9 0
3 SA0266 : ROLLBACK statement without corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION statement. 14 0
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