INF: Implicit Rollbacks of Transactions in SQL Server

ID: Q69131

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft SQL Server for OS/2, version 4.2

Rollbacks will be done implicitly by the data server when a transaction aborts. The errors that could cause a transaction to abort can be broadly divided into the following three categories:

Resource Errors

Running out of system resources

General Errors

Running out of space in the log

Deadlock conditions

Protection exceptions; that is, not having the right permissions on an object

Inability to run a stored procedure

Unable to read/write a stored procedure or trigger from sysprocedures or the cache

Exceeding the maximum nesting levels (32) of stored procedure executions

Errors detected by the checkpoint process

Some overflow errors

Errors encountered by the checkpoint process

Utility Errors

Any errors encountered by the following commands:


      alter database
      alter table
      bulk copy
      create database
      create index
      create table
      dbrepair index
      disk init
      disk refit
      drop object
      drop index
      drop database
      create object (view, table, trigger, procedure, rule)
      update statistics
      truncate table
      create unique index

Additional query words: Server Transaction processing

Keywords : kbother SSrvErr_Log SSrvServer
Version : 4.2
Platform : OS/2
Issue type :