diff --git a/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerBulkCopy.java b/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerBulkCopy.java
index 8f20b2b8b..e5fa8825e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerBulkCopy.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerBulkCopy.java
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 import java.math.BigDecimal;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.ByteOrder;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.sql.Connection;
 import java.sql.Date;
 import java.sql.ResultSet;
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerConnection.java b/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerConnection.java
index 5edf4e0c7..48275d2aa 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerConnection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerConnection.java
@@ -8444,13 +8444,15 @@ boolean supportsTransactions() throws SQLServerException {
         try {
             this.connectionCommand("SELECT @@TRANCOUNT", "SQLServerConnection.supportsTransactions");
         } catch (SQLServerException e) {
-            if (e.getMessage().equals(SQLServerException.getErrString("R_transactionsNotSupported"))) {
-                return supportsTransactions = false;
+            if (e.getMessage().trim().equals(SQLServerException.getErrString("R_transactionsNotSupported"))) {
+                supportsTransactions = false;
+                return false;
             }
             throw e;
         }
 
-        return supportsTransactions = true;
+        supportsTransactions = true;
+        return true;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerPreparedStatement.java b/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerPreparedStatement.java
index ddf88ed2b..5f1766d94 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerPreparedStatement.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/SQLServerPreparedStatement.java
@@ -555,7 +555,6 @@ public int executeUpdate() throws SQLServerException, SQLTimeoutException {
         }
 
         checkClosed();
-
         connection.unprepareUnreferencedPreparedStatementHandles(false);
         executeStatement(new PrepStmtExecCmd(this, EXECUTE_UPDATE));
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/bulkCopy/BulkCopyMoneyTest.java b/src/test/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/bulkCopy/BulkCopyMoneyTest.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 9823c1a94..000000000
--- a/src/test/java/com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/bulkCopy/BulkCopyMoneyTest.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-package com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.bulkCopy;
-
-import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
-import java.sql.Connection;
-import java.sql.ResultSet;
-import java.sql.SQLException;
-import java.sql.Statement;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.RandomUtil;
-import com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerBulkCSVFileRecord;
-import com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TestResource;
-import com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TestUtils;
-import com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerBulkCopy;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
-import org.junit.platform.runner.JUnitPlatform;
-import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
-
-import com.microsoft.sqlserver.testframework.AbstractSQLGenerator;
-import com.microsoft.sqlserver.testframework.AbstractTest;
-import com.microsoft.sqlserver.testframework.PrepUtil;
-
-
-/**
- *
- *
- */
-@RunWith(JUnitPlatform.class)
-public class BulkCopyMoneyTest extends AbstractTest {
-    static String encoding = "UTF-8";
-    static String delimiter = ",";
-    static String destTableName = AbstractSQLGenerator.escapeIdentifier(RandomUtil.getIdentifier("moneyBulkCopyDest"));
-    static String destTableName2 = AbstractSQLGenerator.escapeIdentifier(RandomUtil.getIdentifier("moneyBulkCopyDest"));
-    @Test
-    public void testMoneyWithBulkCopy() throws SQLException {
-        beforeEachSetup();
-
-        try (Connection conn = PrepUtil.getConnection(connectionString)) {
-            testMoneyLimits(-214799.3648, 922337203685387.5887, conn);   // SMALLMONEY MIN
-            testMoneyLimits(214799.3698, 922337203685387.5887, conn);   // SMALLMONEY MAX
-            testMoneyLimits(214719.3698, -922337203685497.5808, conn);   // MONEY MIN
-            testMoneyLimits(214719.3698, 922337203685478.5807, conn);   // MONEY MAX
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void testMoneyLimits(double smallMoneyVal, double moneyVal, Connection conn) throws SQLException {
-        SQLServerBulkCSVFileRecord fileRecord = constructFileRecord(smallMoneyVal, moneyVal);
-
-        try {
-            testMoneyWithBulkCopy(conn, fileRecord);
-            fail(TestResource.getResource("R_expectedExceptionNotThrown"));
-        } catch (SQLException e) {
-            assertTrue(e.getMessage().matches(TestUtils.formatErrorMsg("R_valueOutOfRange")),
-                    e.getMessage());
-        }
-    }
-
-    private SQLServerBulkCSVFileRecord constructFileRecord(double smallMoneyVal, double moneyVal) throws SQLException {
-        Map<Object, Object> data = new HashMap();
-        data.put(smallMoneyVal, moneyVal);
-
-        StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
-        stringBuilder.append("smallmoneycol, moneycol\n");
-
-        for (Map.Entry entry : data.entrySet()) {
-            stringBuilder.append(
-                    String.format("%s,%s\n", entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()));
-        }
-
-        byte[] bytes = stringBuilder.toString().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
-        SQLServerBulkCSVFileRecord fileRecord = null;
-        try (InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes)) {
-            fileRecord = new SQLServerBulkCSVFileRecord(inputStream, encoding, delimiter, true);
-        } catch (IOException e) {}
-        return fileRecord;
-    }
-
-    private void testMoneyWithBulkCopy(Connection conn, SQLServerBulkCSVFileRecord fileRecord) throws SQLException {
-        try (SQLServerBulkCopy bulkCopy = new SQLServerBulkCopy(conn); Statement stmt = conn.createStatement()) {
-
-            fileRecord.addColumnMetadata(1, "c1", java.sql.Types.DECIMAL, 10, 4); // with smallmoney
-            fileRecord.addColumnMetadata(2, "c2", java.sql.Types.DECIMAL, 19, 4); // with money
-
-
-            bulkCopy.setDestinationTableName(destTableName);
-            bulkCopy.writeToServer(fileRecord);
-
-            try (ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select * FROM " + destTableName + " order by c1");
-                    SQLServerBulkCopy bcOperation = new SQLServerBulkCopy(conn);) {
-                bcOperation.setDestinationTableName(destTableName2);
-                bcOperation.writeToServer(rs);
-            }
-
-        }
-    }
-
-    private void beforeEachSetup() throws SQLException {
-        try (Connection con = getConnection(); Statement stmt = con.createStatement()) {
-            TestUtils.dropTableIfExists(destTableName, stmt);
-            TestUtils.dropTableIfExists(destTableName2, stmt);
-
-            String table = "create table " + destTableName + " (c1 smallmoney, c2 money)";
-            stmt.execute(table);
-            table = "create table " + destTableName2 + " (c1 smallmoney, c2 money)";
-            stmt.execute(table);
-        }
-    }
-}