How can I rollback an UPDATE query in SQL server 2005?

Question

How can I rollback an UPDATE query in SQL server 2005?

I need to do this in SQL, not through code.

Answer 1

in this example we run 2 line insert into query and if all of them true it run but if not no run anything and ROLLBACK

DECLARE @rowcount int  set @rowcount = 0 ; 
BEGIN TRANSACTION [Tran1]
BEGIN TRY 
 insert into [database].[dbo].[tbl1] (fld1) values('1') ;
    set @rowcount = (@rowcount + @@ROWCOUNT); 
 insert into [database].[dbo].[tbl2] (fld1) values('2') ;
    set @rowcount = (@rowcount + @@ROWCOUNT); 

IF @rowcount =  2
  COMMIT TRANSACTION[Tran1]
ELSE
  ROLLBACK TRANSACTION[Tran1]
END TRY
  BEGIN CATCH
  ROLLBACK TRANSACTION[Tran1]
END CATCH

Answer 2

Once an update is committed you can't rollback just the single update. Your best bet is to roll back to a previous backup of the database.

Answer 3

You need this tool and you can find the transaction and reverse it.

ApexSQL Log

Answer 4

Try

ROLLBACK WORK;

It usually works

Answer 5

You can rollback the statements you've executed within a transaction. Instead of commiting the transaction, rollback the transaction.

If you have updated something and want to rollback those updates, and you haven't done this inside a (not-yet-commited) transaction, then I think it's though luck ...

(Manually repair, or, restore backups)

Answer 6

Simple to do:

header code...

Set objMyConn = New ADODB.Connection

Set objMyCmd = New ADODB.Command Set

objMyRecordset = New ADODB.Recordset

On Error GoTo ERRORHAND 

Working code...

objMyConn.ConnectionString = ConnStr

objMyConn.Open 

code....

'Copy Data FROM Excel'

objMyConn.BeginTrans <-- define transactions to possible be rolled back 

For NewRows = 2 To Rows

objMyRecordset.AddNew 

For NewColumns = 0 To Columns - 1

objMyRecordset.Fields(NewColumns).Value = ActiveSheet.Cells(NewRows, NewColumns + 1)

Next NewColumns objMyRecordset.Update Next NewRows

objMyConn.CommitTrans <- if success, commit them to DB

objMyConn.Close

ERRORHAND:

Success = False 

objMyConn.RollbackTrans <-- here we roll back if error encountered somewhere

LogMessage = "ERROR writing database: " & Err.Description

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