Transaction in a stored procedure

I need to perform an UPDATE and an INSERT in a single transaction. That code works fine on its own, but I'd like to be able to call it easily and pass in the required parameters. When I try to nest this transaction in a stored procedure I run into lots of syntax errors.

How can I encapsulate the following code so it can be easily called?

BEGIN TRANSACTION AssignUserToTicket
GO

DECLARE @updateAuthor varchar(100)
DECLARE @assignedUser varchar(100)
DECLARE @ticketID bigint

SET @updateAuthor = 'user1'
SET @assignedUser = 'user2'
SET @ticketID = 123456

    UPDATE tblTicket SET ticketAssignedUserSamAccountName = @assignedUser WHERE (ticketID = @ticketID);
    INSERT INTO [dbo].[tblTicketUpdate]
           ([ticketID]
           ,[updateDetail]
           ,[updateDateTime]
           ,[userSamAccountName]
           ,[activity])
     VALUES
           (@ticketID,
           'Assigned ticket to ' + @assignedUser,
           GetDate(),
           @updateAuthor,
           'Assign');
GO
COMMIT TRANSACTION AssignUserToTicket

You need to wrap that code in CREATE PROCEDURE ... syntax, and remove the GO statements after BEGIN TRANSACTION and before COMMIT TRANSACTION.

GO
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.AssignUserToTicket
(
     @updateAuthor varchar(100)
    , @assignedUser varchar(100)
    , @ticketID bigint
)
AS
BEGIN
    BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    SAVE TRANSACTION MySavePoint;
    SET @updateAuthor = 'user1';
    SET @assignedUser = 'user2';
    SET @ticketID = 123456;

    BEGIN TRY
        UPDATE dbo.tblTicket 
        SET ticketAssignedUserSamAccountName = @assignedUser 
        WHERE (ticketID = @ticketID);

        INSERT INTO [dbo].[tblTicketUpdate]
            (
            [ticketID]
            ,[updateDetail]
            ,[updateDateTime]
            ,[userSamAccountName]
            ,[activity]
            )
        VALUES (
            @ticketID
            , 'Assigned ticket to ' + @assignedUser
            , GetDate()
            , @updateAuthor
            , 'Assign'
            );
        COMMIT TRANSACTION 
    END TRY
    BEGIN CATCH
        IF @@TRANCOUNT > 0
        BEGIN
            ROLLBACK TRANSACTION MySavePoint; -- rollback to MySavePoint
        END
    END CATCH
END;
GO

Also note, I have added a TRY...CATCH statement block to allow performing a ROLLBACK TRANSACTION statement in case some error occurs. You probably need better error handling than that, but without knowledge of your requirements, that is difficult at best.

Some good reading:

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Always specify the schema

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Stored Procedure Best Practices

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Bad habits to avoid

StackExchange Database Administrators Q#134129, answer score: 26