The server failed to resume the transaction. Desc:4500000006

Question

I am calling single store procedure from asp.net C# which basically insert/update data in two different tables. I am using SQL transaction in store procedure.
I am getting exception
THE SERVER FAILED TO RESUME THE TRANSACTION, DESC:4500000006. THE TRANSACTION ACTIVE IN THIS SESSION HAS BEEN COMMITTED OR ABORTED BY ANOTHER SESSION.
Exception which I get its not frequent messsage.
Any Idea!!!!
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[ssp_UpdateActivity]
@ActivityID uniqueidentifier,
@MasterCustomerID bigint = NULL,
@MasterCustomerAccountNumber varchar(30) = NULL,
@MasterIdentifier varchar(30) = NULL,
@UpdateDateTime datetime,
@UpdateBy varchar(100),
@ActivitySDRecord dbo.ActivitySDRecord READONLY
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON;
BEGIN TRY
BEGIN TRAN
UPDATE Activity
SET MasterCustomerID = @MasterCustomerID,
MasterCustomerAccountNumber = @MasterCustomerAccountNumber,
MasterIdentifier = @MasterIdentifier,
UpdateDateTime = @UpdateDateTime,
UpdateBy = @UpdateBy
WHERE ActivityID = @ActivityID
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @ActivitySDRecord)
BEGIN
MERGE ActivitySubDisposition AS TRG
USING @ActivitySDRecord AS SRC
ON TRG.ActivityID = SRC.ActivityID
AND TRG.ActivityTypeID = SRC.ActivityTypeID
WHEN NOT MATCHED BY TARGET THEN
INSERT (ActivityTypeID, ActivityID)
VALUES (SRC.ActivityTypeID, SRC.ActivityID)
END
COMMIT TRAN
SELECT @ActivityID
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
-- Rollback any uncommited transactions before rethrowing the error.
IF XACT_STATE() <> 0
BEGIN
ROLLBACK TRANSACTION;
END
DECLARE @ErrorMessage NVARCHAR(4000)
, @ErrorNumber INT = ERROR_NUMBER()
, @ErrorSeverity INT = ERROR_SEVERITY()
, @ErrorState INT = ERROR_STATE()
, @ErrorLine INT = ERROR_LINE()
, @ErrorProcedure NVARCHAR(200) = ISNULL(ERROR_PROCEDURE(), '-');
-- Build the message string that will contain original error information.
SET @ErrorMessage = N'Error %d, Level %d, State %d, Procedure %s, Line %d, ' + 'Message: '+ ERROR_MESSAGE();
-- Raise an error: msg_str parameter of RAISERROR will contain the original error information.
RAISERROR
@ErrorMessage,
@ErrorSeverity,
1,
@ErrorNumber, -- parameter: original error number.
@ErrorSeverity, -- parameter: original error severity.
@ErrorState, -- parameter: original error state.
@ErrorProcedure, -- parameter: original error procedure name.
@ErrorLine -- parameter: original error line number.
END CATCH

Answer 1

This appears to be an error message which has it roots in MS DTC, Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator.
This indicates that you somewhere manage to get a distributed transaction. This could be because of two things:
1) There are triggers on the tables that accesses linked server.
2) Your client code dabbles with some transaction class, like TransactionScope or similar.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]