rollback-work-transact-sql.md

title	ROLLBACK WORK (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs
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ROLLBACK WORK (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDE SQL Server SQL Database]

Rolls back a user-specified transaction to the beginning of the transaction.

Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

Syntax

  
ROLLBACK [ WORK ]  
[ ; ]  

Remarks

This statement functions identically to ROLLBACK TRANSACTION except that ROLLBACK TRANSACTION accepts a user-defined transaction name. With or without specifying the optional WORK keyword, this ROLLBACK syntax is ISO-compatible.

When nesting transactions, ROLLBACK WORK always rolls back to the outermost BEGIN TRANSACTION statement and decrements the @@TRANCOUNT system function to 0.

Permissions

ROLLBACK WORK permissions default to any valid user.

See Also

BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
BEGIN TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
COMMIT TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
COMMIT WORK (Transact-SQL)
ROLLBACK TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
SAVE TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)