If you get a ticket, it will not go on your record.

The only time anything goes on your record is if you were arrested, as in put in handcuffs and taken to the cop shop.

I have gotten a few alcohol related, drunk charges (not driving) tickets. I got like 4 of them in life, and none of them went on my record at all.

I still have 1 from like 4 years ago I haven't paid. I got pulled over once or twice since then, they check my record, and it comes back clean.

All in all, you have nothing to worry about going on your record. Tickets and fines are different than charges.