The good news is a transaction in SQL Server can span multiple batches (each exec
is treated as a separate batch.)
You can wrap your EXEC
statements in a BEGIN TRANSACTION
and COMMIT
but you'll need to go a step further and rollback if any errors occur.
Ideally you'd want something like this:
BEGIN TRY
BEGIN TRANSACTION
exec( @sqlHeader)
exec(@sqlTotals)
exec(@sqlLine)
COMMIT
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
ROLLBACK
END CATCH
The BEGIN TRANSACTION
and COMMIT
I believe you are already familiar with. The BEGIN TRY
and BEGIN CATCH
blocks are basically there to catch and handle any errors that occur. If any of your EXEC
statements raise an error, the code execution will jump to the CATCH
block.
Your existing SQL building code should be outside the transaction (above) as you always want to keep your transactions as short as possible.