How Implicit Transactions Work in SQL Server

There are four transaction modes in SQL Server. One of these is implicit mode.

In SQL Server, an implicit transaction is when a new transaction is implicitly started when the prior transaction completes, but each transaction is explicitly completed with a COMMIT or ROLLBACK statement.

This is not to be confused with autocommit mode, where the transaction is started and ended implicitly.

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SQL Transactions Tutorial

In SQL, transactions are used to maintain data integrity by ensuring that a sequence of SQL statements execute completely or not at all.

Transactions manage sequences of SQL statements that must be executed as a single unit of work, so that the database never contains the results of partial operations.

When a transaction makes multiple changes to the database, either all the changes succeed when the transaction is committed, or all the changes are undone when the transaction is rolled back.

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