Active transactions for the current connection

@@TRANCOUNT

Returns the number of active transactions for the current connection.

The BEGIN TRANSACTION statement increments @@TRANCOUNT by 1. ROLLBACK TRANSACTION decrements @@TRANCOUNT to 0, except for ROLLBACK TRANSACTION savepoint_name, which does not affect @@TRANCOUNT. COMMIT TRANSACTION or COMMIT WORK decrement @@TRANCOUNT by 1.

BEGIN TRANSACTION
UPDATE authors SET au_lname = upper(au_lname)
WHERE au_lname = 'White'
IF @@ROWCOUNT = 2
COMMIT TRAN
IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
BEGIN
PRINT 'A transaction needs to be rolled back'
ROLLBACK TRAN
END