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+---
+title: Error Handling Improvements
+summary: Error Handling
+toc: true
+docs_area: reference.sql
+---
+
+## Error Handling
+
+When a query failed due to a transient error, CockroachDB now retries the request automatically. This avoids anthropic-style cascading failures.