I wanted to make a change to a table allowing some columns to have NULL value. The table has about 500,000 rows. But SQL Server times out when trying to update the table. First SQL Server gives a warning that such a procedure may take a lot of time. Then it times out.
What is the recommended way of making such an update? Or is there a way to increase the time (at least temporarily) allowed for this procedure?
Thank you.
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