Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. The statement has been terminated

Question

I have many users on my web site (20000-60000 per day), which is a download site for mobile files. I have remote access to my server (windows server 2008-R2).
I\'ve

Answer 1

Timeout expired because the sql query is taking more time than you set in sqlCommand.CommandTimeout property.

Obviously you can increase CommandTimeout to solve this issue but before doing that you must optimize your query by adding index. If you run your query in Sql server management studio including actual execution plan then Sql server management studio will suggest you proper index. Most of the case you will get rid of timeout issue if you can optimize your query.