SQL Server : Rollback without BEGIN TRANSACTION

Question

Is there a way we can rollback to previous state of the transaction using ROLLBACK without BEGIN TRANSACTION?

delete from table1;
ROLLBACK

Message:

The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION.

Any input would be of great help.

Thanks !!!

Answer 1

To expand on gerrytans answer when you explicitly set IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS ON, you can use a ROLLBACK. See the MSDN doco related to this. Note that this isn't the default autocommit transaction mode.

This allows me to run a statement like;

SET IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS ON

INSERT INTO my_table (item_type, start_date_time)
VALUES ('TEST', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)

ROLLBACK

-- Shouldn't return the 'TEST' value inserted above.
SELECT * FROM my_table ORDER BY start_date_time DESC