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ROLLBACK

Name

ROLLBACK — Aborts the current transaction

ROLLBACK [ WORK ]

Inputs

None.

Outputs

ABORT: Message returned if successful.
NOTICE: UserAbortTransactionBlock and not in in-progress state ABORT: If there is not any transaction currently in progress.

Description

ROLLBACK rolls back the current transaction and causes all the updates made by the transaction to be discarded.

Notes

The keyword WORK is noise and can be omitted.

Use the COMMIT statement to successfully terminate a transaction.

Usage

--To abort all changes:
--
ROLLBACK WORK;

Compatibility

SQL92

Full compatibility.

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