commit-work-transact-sql.md

title	COMMIT WORK (Transact-SQL)
description	COMMIT WORK (Transact-SQL)
author	markingmyname
ms.author	maghan
ms.date	06/10/2016
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ms.subservice	t-sql
ms.topic	reference
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f1_keywords	COMMIT_WORK_TSQL WORK_TSQL WORK COMMIT WORK
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COMMIT WORK (Transact-SQL)

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Marks the end of a transaction.

:::image type="icon" source="../../includes/media/topic-link-icon.svg" border="false"::: Transact-SQL syntax conventions

Syntax

COMMIT [ WORK ]  
[ ; ]  

Remarks

This statement functions identically to COMMIT TRANSACTION, except COMMIT TRANSACTION accepts a user-defined transaction name. This COMMIT syntax, with or without specifying the optional keyword WORK, is compatible with SQL-92.

See Also

BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
BEGIN TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
COMMIT TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
ROLLBACK TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
ROLLBACK WORK (Transact-SQL)
SAVE TRANSACTION (Transact-SQL)
@@TRANCOUNT (Transact-SQL)