Query times out from web app but runs fine from management studio

Question

This is a question I asked on another forum which received some decent answers, but I wanted to see if anyone here has more insight.

The problem is that you have one

Answer 1

You could try using the sp_who2 command to see what process in question is doing. This will show you if it's blocked by another process, or using up an excessive amount of cpu and/or io time.