Timeout setting for SQL Server

Question

I am using VSTS 2008 + ADO.Net + C# + .Net 3.5 + SQL Server 2008. I am using ADO.Net at client side to connect to database server to execute a store procedure, then return r

Answer 1

As gbn already mentioned, there are two types of timeouts:

1) Connection Timeout: this is controlled by your connection string:

Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=TestDB;
   Trusted_Connection=true;Asynchronous Processing=true

If you add a Connect Timeout=120 to this string, your connection will try for 120 seconds to get opened and then aborts.

Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=TestDB;
   Trusted_Connection=true;Asynchronous Processing=true;
   Connect Timeout=120;

2) Command timeout: for each command, you can also specify a timeout - ADO.NET will wait for that amount of time before cancelling out your query. You specify that on the SqlCommand object:

    using (SqlCommand RetrieveOrderCommand = new SqlCommand())
    {
       RetrieveOrderCommand.CommandTimeout = 150;
    }