You have to be careful when using @@ROWCOUNT. Your example should work as you expect, but the example below will not...
UPDATE .....
SELECT @MyErr = @@ERROR
IF @@ROWCOUNT > 1 ...
In this situation @@ROWCOUNT will always be 1 because of the SELECT running after the update that saves the error code.
If you need to save both the @@ERROR and @@ROWCOUNT values, use something similar to the code below. You can then refer to @MyErr and @MyCount whenever you want and always get the values from the UPDATE statement.
UPDATE...
SELECT @MyErr = @@ERROR, @MyCount = @@ROWCOUNT
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