Know when to retry or fail when calling SQL Server from C#?

Question

I have a C# application that fetches data from SQL Server hosted in a somewhat flaky environment. There is nothing I can do to address the environmental issues, so I need to

Answer 1

You can simply SqlConnectionStringBuilder properties to sql connection retry.

var conBuilder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(Configuration["Database:Connection"]); conBuilder.ConnectTimeout = 90; conBuilder.ConnectRetryInterval = 15; conBuilder.ConnectRetryCount = 6;

Note:- Required .Net 4.5 or later.