UPDATE: the issue is now fixed.
I would like to execute a query that takes more than 99,999 seconds to execute (e.g. SELECT SLEEP(150000);). To change the timeout in MySQL Workbench, we have to go to Edit → Preferences → SQL Editor → DBMS connection read time out (in seconds). However, the DBMS connection read time out field only accept up to 5 figures, and setting the field to 0 is equivalent to the default parameter (600 seconds). If the query takes more time than the timeout, I get the error message: Error Code: 2013. Lost connection to MySQL server during query
Hence my question: is it possible to increase this limit to over 99,999 seconds? I use Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate with MySQL Workbench 5.2.47 CE.
The DBMS connection read time out field:
Timeout issue (0 is equivalent to the default parameter (600 seconds)):
Probably nobody ever thought you'd need such a high timeout, so you are limited to what is settable currently. But open a feature request on http://bugs.mysql.com to suggest either having 0 disable the timeout entirely or allow bigger values.
Well, in Europe we consider the comma a decimal-separator. Did you actually mean 100k of seconds? I see in your comments that you are handling 50 GB. Even so, if you need longer than an hour, you missed the Indeces. You must know that they won´t get properly rebuildt in a single query, so if you join on a massive insert, You get the cartesian product of rows scanned - in other words, your query could happen to run for weeks or even months.
Solution:
1) Fill in basic data, use no joins here. 2) Alter table to set index. 3) Run "ANALYZE " 4) Do everything else.
If yo feel that you have trouble following that procedure, prepend your Query with the EXPLAIN keyword and post the results.
(I have a cronjob importing about 80GB every 30 minutes in place - MySQL surely can handle this.)
This issue is now solved in MySQL Workbench 6.0.3 (2013-07-09): See the bug report and the change log.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16877574/how-can-i-execute-sql-queries-that-take-longer-99-999-seconds-on-mysql-workbench