diff --git a/frappe/database/database.py b/frappe/database/database.py
index b7df11849c..5a86fef061 100644
--- a/frappe/database/database.py
+++ b/frappe/database/database.py
@@ -375,11 +375,12 @@ class Database:
 		"""Raises exception if more than 200,000 `INSERT`, `UPDATE` queries are
 		executed in one transaction. This is to ensure that writes are always flushed otherwise this
 		could cause the system to hang."""
-		self.check_implicit_commit(query, ignore_implicit_commit)
 
-		if query and is_query_type(query, ("commit", "rollback")):
+		if query and is_query_type(query, ("start", "begin", "commit", "rollback")):
 			self.transaction_writes = 0
 
+		self.check_implicit_commit(query, ignore_implicit_commit)
+
 		if query[:6].lower() in ("update", "insert", "delete"):
 			self.transaction_writes += 1
 			if self.transaction_writes > self.MAX_WRITES_PER_TRANSACTION: