Use of transaction management statements in triggers

Reports usages of transaction management statements like COMMIT or ROLLBACK in trigger bodies.

With COMMIT or ROLLBACK statements in a trigger body, the trigger will not compile. The fail happens because triggers start during transactions. When the trigger starts the current transaction is still not complete. As COMMIT terminates a transaction, both statements (COMMIT and ROLLBACK) would lead to an exception. Changes that are executed in a trigger should be committed (or rolled back) by the owning transaction that started the trigger.

Example (Oracle):

CREATE TABLE employee_audit
(
    id          INT  NOT NULL,
    update_date DATE NOT NULL,
    old_name    VARCHAR2(100),
    new_name    VARCHAR2(100)
);

CREATE TABLE employees
(
    id   INT           NOT NULL,
    name VARCHAR2(100) NOT NULL
);

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trig_commit
    AFTER UPDATE OF name
    ON employees
    FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO employee_audit VALUES (:old.id, SYSDATE, :old.name, :new.name);
    COMMIT;
END;

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER trig_rollback
    AFTER UPDATE OF name
    ON employees
    FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO employee_audit VALUES (:old.id, SYSDATE, :old.name, :new.name);
    ROLLBACK;
END;

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

SqlTransactionStatementInTrigger

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | SQL

Inspection ID: SqlTransactionStatementInTriggerInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection SqlTransactionStatementInTrigger

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	CLion 2026.1, DataGrip 2026.1, DataSpell 2026.1, GoLand 2026.1, IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1, JetBrains Rider 2025.3, PhpStorm 2026.1, PyCharm 2026.1, Qodana for .NET 2025.3, Qodana for Go 2026.1, Qodana for JS 2026.1, Qodana for JVM 2026.1, Qodana for PHP 2026.1, Qodana for Ruby 2026.1, RubyMine 2026.1, WebStorm 2026.1

Last modified: 31 March 2026