Nested BEGIN TRANSACTION/END TRANSACTION Pairs - Teradata Vantage

When BEGIN TRANSACTION/ET pairs are nested, Vantage checks to make sure that each BEGIN TRANSACTION statement has a matching END TRANSACTION statement.

The outermost BEGIN TRANSACTION/END TRANSACTION pair defines the explicit transaction. The inner BEGIN TRANSACTION/END TRANSACTION pairs do not effect the transaction because Vantage does not support transaction nesting.

Any embedded multiple-statement requests and macro executions are considered part of the outermost BEGIN TRANSACTION/END TRANSACTION explicit transaction and are not considered to be implicit transactions in this context.

A multiple-statement request can have only one BEGIN TRANSACTION statement, which must be the first statement in a request.

For example, the following series of requests is treated as one explicit transaction.

     BEGIN TRANSACTION;
      SELECT …;
      UPDATE …
      EXEC a(3,4);
        BEGIN TRANSACTION;
         UPDATE …;
         INSERT …
         ;INSERT …;
        END TRANSACTION;
      INSERT …;
     END TRANSACTION;

If an error occurs in the middle of a nested BEGIN TRANSACTION/END TRANSACTION, everything rolls back to the initial BEGIN TRANSACTION.