Timeout expired with SqlBulkCopy

Question

I\'m using SqlBulkCopy to restore tables from xml backups. One of the table backup is ~200MB large and has a lot of records.

I\'m having error:

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Answer 1

You probably need to increase the timeout. Try increasing the value of sqlBulkCopy.BulkCopyTimeout from the default which is 30 seconds.