How to commit and rollback transaction in sql server?

Question

I have a huge script for creating tables and porting data from one server. So this sceipt basically has -

1. Create statements for tables.
2. Insert for porting the data to these newly created tables.
3. Create statements for stored procedures.

So I have this code but it does not work basically @@ERROR is always zero I think..

BEGIN TRANSACTION
--CREATES
--INSERTS
--STORED PROCEDURES CREATES
    -- ON ERROR ROLLBACK ELSE COMMIT THE TRANSACTION
    IF @@ERROR != 0
        BEGIN

            PRINT @@ERROR
                      PRINT 'ERROR IN SCRIPT'
            ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
            RETURN
        END
    ELSE
    BEGIN
        COMMIT TRANSACTION
        PRINT 'COMMITTED SUCCESSFULLY'
    END
    GO

Can anyone help me write a transaction which will basically rollback on error and commit if everything is fine..Can I use RaiseError somehow here..

Answer 1

Don't use @@ERROR, use BEGIN TRY/BEGIN CATCH instead. See this article: Exception handling and nested transactions for a sample procedure:

create procedure [usp_my_procedure_name]
as
begin
    set nocount on;
    declare @trancount int;
    set @trancount = @@trancount;
    begin try
        if @trancount = 0
            begin transaction
        else
            save transaction usp_my_procedure_name;

        -- Do the actual work here

lbexit:
        if @trancount = 0   
            commit;
    end try
    begin catch
        declare @error int, @message varchar(4000), @xstate int;
        select @error = ERROR_NUMBER(), @message = ERROR_MESSAGE(), @xstate = XACT_STATE();
        if @xstate = -1
            rollback;
        if @xstate = 1 and @trancount = 0
            rollback
        if @xstate = 1 and @trancount > 0
            rollback transaction usp_my_procedure_name;

        raiserror ('usp_my_procedure_name: %d: %s', 16, 1, @error, @message) ;
        return;
    end catch   
end