Use this statement to end a transaction and undo any changes made since the last COMMIT or ROLLBACK.

Syntax

ROLLBACK [ WORK ]

Remarks

A transaction is the logical unit of work done on one database connection to a database between COMMIT or ROLLBACK statements. The ROLLBACK statement ends the current transaction and undoes all changes made to the database since the previous COMMIT or ROLLBACK.

Permissions

None.

Side effects

Closes all cursors not opened WITH HOLD.

See also

• COMMIT statement
• ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT statement

Standards and compatibility