Transaction in snowflake stored procedures - snowflake-cloud-data-platform

Question

My first stored proc in snowflake, trying to use transaction in one of the sample stored proc, please help to fix the error and why? "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier in GET_ROW_COUNT at ' BEGIN TRANSACTION;' position 8"
trying to follow the document: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/transactions.html
Here is the proc.
create or replace procedure get_row_count(table_name VARCHAR)
returns float not null
language javascript
as
$$
var row_count = 0;
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
// Dynamically compose the SQL statement to execute.
var sql_command = "select count(*) from " + TABLE_NAME;
// Run the statement.
var stmt = snowflake.createStatement(
{
sqlText: sql_command
}
);
var res = stmt.execute();
// Get back the row count. Specifically, ...
// ... get the first (and in this case only) row from the result set ...
res.next();
// ... and then get the returned value, which in this case is the number of
// rows in the table.
row_count = res.getColumnValue(1);
return row_count;
COMMIT ;
$$
;

Answer 1

You need to call COMMIT and BEGIN TRANSACTION using snowflake.execute() as they are SQL commands:
create or replace procedure get_row_count(table_name VARCHAR)
returns float not null
language javascript
as
$$
var row_count = 0;
snowflake.execute({ sqlText: 'BEGIN TRANSACTION' });
// Dynamically compose the SQL statement to execute.
var sql_command = "select count(*) from " + TABLE_NAME;
// Run the statement.
var stmt = snowflake.createStatement(
{
sqlText: sql_command
}
);
var res = stmt.execute();
// Get back the row count. Specifically, ...
// ... get the first (and in this case only) row from the result set ...
res.next();
// ... and then get the returned value, which in this case is the number of
// rows in the table.
row_count = res.getColumnValue(1);
snowflake.execute({ sqlText: 'COMMIT' });
return row_count;
$$
;