Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Calling Stored Procedures from Transactions

Stored procedures can be called from within a transaction, and they can also initiate transactions. SQL Server notes the transaction nesting level, which is available from the @@trancount function, before calling a stored procedure. If the value of @@trancount when the procedure returns is different from the value of @@trancount when it was executed, SQL Server displays the following error message

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Msg 266, Level 16, State 2, Procedure p1, Line 0Transaction count after EXECUTE indicates a mismatching number of BEGIN and COMMITstatements. Previous count = 0, current count = 1.

This message indicates that transaction nesting is out of balance. Because a stored procedure does ...