Can we use 'GO' multiple times in SQL Transaction?

Question

Can We use GO statement mutiple times in a SQL Transaction. I am having a long T-SQL script and I want to run it in a SQL Transaction. If

Answer 1

Note that GO is not a SQL keyword. It is a client-side batch separator used by SQL Server Management Studio and other client tools.

GO has no effect on transaction scope. BEGIN TRAN will start a transaction on the current connection. COMMIT and ROLLBACK will end the transaction. You can execute as many statements as you want in-between. GO will execute the statements separately.

As specified by MSDN:

A TRY…CATCH construct cannot span multiple batches.

So BEGIN TRY, END TRY, BEGIN CATCH, and END CATCH cannot be separated into separate batches by a GO separator. They must appear in the same query.

If you do try to include a batch separator in a TRY/CATCH statement like the invalid SQL below:

begin try
    go
end try
begin catch
    go
end catch

This will execute 3 different queries that return syntax errors:

1) begin try

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near 'begin'.

2) end try begin catch

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 3
Incorrect syntax near 'try'.

3) end catch

Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 6
Incorrect syntax near 'catch'.