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title: ROLLBACK WORK (Transact-SQL)
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# ROLLBACK WORK (Transact-SQL)
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  Rolls back a user-specified transaction to the beginning of the transaction.  
  
 
 :::image type="icon" source="../../includes/media/topic-link-icon.svg" border="false"::: [Transact-SQL syntax conventions](../../t-sql/language-elements/transact-sql-syntax-conventions-transact-sql.md)  
  
## Syntax  
  
```syntaxsql
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)](../../t-sql/language-elements/begin-distributed-transaction-transact-sql.md)   
 [BEGIN TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)](../../t-sql/language-elements/begin-transaction-transact-sql.md)   
 [COMMIT TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)](../../t-sql/language-elements/commit-transaction-transact-sql.md)   
 [COMMIT WORK (Transact-SQL)](../../t-sql/language-elements/commit-work-transact-sql.md)   
 [ROLLBACK TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)](../../t-sql/language-elements/rollback-transaction-transact-sql.md)   
 [SAVE TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)](../../t-sql/language-elements/save-transaction-transact-sql.md)