In this tutorial, you will learn how to handle database transactions while using SQL databases.

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A practical guide to database transaction management in Spring Boot, covering three approaches: plain JDBC, declarative @Transactional annotation, and programmatic TransactionTemplate. Explains @Transactional defaults (REQUIRED propagation, RuntimeException rollback), how to customize propagation levels and rollback rules, and a critical gotcha: calling a @Transactional method from within the same class bypasses the Spring AOP proxy, causing the inner method's transaction settings to be ignored. The fix is to move the method to a separate class.

Spring Boot Database Transaction Management Tutorial

Spring’s declarative transaction handling using @Transactional annotation

Spring’s programmatic transaction handling using TransactionTemplate

A common mistake while using @Transactional annotation