I got this right, but I'm still a little confused. Am I correct in thinking that what is being tested here is knowledge of the IGNORE_DUP_KEY setting and not anything to do with transactions? Since IGNORE_DUP_KEY means that there is no error, it doesn't matter whether the statements are wrapped in a transaction or not. Furthermore, as we saw in previous questions in this series, the transaction would commit regardless of a unique key violation, unless XACT_ABORT is set to OFF, which is not the default.

John

Edit: didn't mean to parrot what was written in the previous few posts - they weren't there when I started writing this one!