>>I have Windows XP with SQL Server installed on it. Originally web.config was referring to the server's database. I copied database to my local SQL Server, adjusted web.config and now I'm testing 'locally'.
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>>Using test server and few developers was causing timeouts most of the time.
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>It was probably other factors. In my case, I had that during the conversion process when the indexes were not entirely created and optimization issues like that.

I see. We really need to look closer into the problem what's causing it.

But for now for myself I eliminated it (hopefully).