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Some errors when encountered take most of us for a spin. In this

category, the error related to “Timeout” surely falls. If you are a web
developer and receive the same there are a hundred combinations
of why this can possibly happen. The web, results can sometimes
lead us in completely opposite directions because we have not
analyzed the root cause for this. I sincerely urge everyone when
working with generic errors, look for specific symptoms and then use
the trick of eliminating one after the other before a final solution can
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This is one of the most common errors which you would hear from
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2. Connection Timeout: The default value of connection timeout is majority of problems in the
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made, we would see the error.

The next obvious question is – what should we do if we see

such error?

Query timeout: The reason a command/query runs longer than

expected is commonly due to blocking or the need for query/index
tuning or both. A quick way to check for blocking to run sp_who2
while the query is running. The BlkBy column will show the SPID of
the blocking connection if the query is blocked. For a slow-running
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It is important to note the error number. It is not an SQL Server error

but an error by the client. The query waited for 10 seconds because
we caused blocking. If we don’t set the timeout value in SSMS, the
query would run forever because the default timeout is zero.

Connection timeout: This I can’t reproduce by management studio

query easily. On a slow network, you can easily reproduce it by
reducing the connection timeout to a lower value. In SSMS. You need
to click on Options on the login page as shown below for the timeout
period.

And change the value in the Connection Properties tab.

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On the same screen, we can also set the query timeout (shown as
execution time-out)

If you are seeing the same errors in your web application, then you
need to check a configuration file (normally known as the web.
config file). The same parameters (query and connection timeout)
can be set in the connection string of the application as well.

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September 4, 2017 9:07 am

Hello Sir,
I got Following error every day while i move database from RAM Disk
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Hari Varma
March 14, 2019 11:44 am

One of my windows login is trying to connect to the SQL server

2008R2 Express edition he is facing This issue as Timeout expired.
The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or
the server is not responding. This Issue appears only once a day i.e.
when the initial request is made to connect to the server.
I have tried with my SA login but I didn’t find any issue for the first
time login in a day.

He has tried connecting to SQL Server with server name as well as IP

address but that hasn’t solved the issue.

Can you please suggest for this issue.

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JaVinci
February 26, 2020 2:52 pm

Oh, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I was getting this error and I’ve changed the connection timeout to
1000 and got the same error… I was two steps away from going
crazy!! xD

I changed my SQLCommand.CommandTimeout and everything’s

going fine now!!

:D

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If sql server is who raises the exception, the work currently done is
rolledback. i supose.
But, if it is c# who raises the exception, sql server still runs the
execution of the command?

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Michael Jenc
May 7, 2020 8:12 pm

Hi,I tried to execute a CREATE DATABASE command on a ADO

command object with CommandTimeout set to 0. This worked fine in
previous days. Now we encounter a timeout error after 120 seconds.
Do you know of a change to MSOLEDBSQL or SQLNCLI11 (tried both
providers) that allows only a maximum timeout? Setting it to MAXINT
did not help either. Setting a value of 36000 did help though.
But I am just interested what caused the error…

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TinyTina
August 29, 2023 10:12 pm

Thank you so much, this was driving me nuts!!

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