Sleep Command in T-SQL?

Question

Is there to way write a T-SQL command to just make it sleep for a period of time? I am writing a web service asynchronously and I want to be able to run some tests to see i

Answer 1

Here is a very simple piece of C# code to test the CommandTimeout with. It creates a new command which will wait for 2 seconds. Set the CommandTimeout to 1 second and you will see an exception when running it. Setting the CommandTimeout to either 0 or something higher than 2 will run fine. By the way, the default CommandTimeout is 30 seconds.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
  class Program
  {
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      var builder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder();
      builder.DataSource = "localhost";
      builder.IntegratedSecurity = true;
      builder.InitialCatalog = "master";

      var connectionString = builder.ConnectionString;

      using (var connection = new SqlConnection(connectionString))
      {
        connection.Open();

        using (var command = connection.CreateCommand())
        {
          command.CommandText = "WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:02'";
          command.CommandTimeout = 1;

          command.ExecuteNonQuery();
        }
      }
    }
  }
}