>>Usually when you run operations as a script they don't timeout. Save the script and run it.
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>If a script would time out, does this mean we would no longer be able to apply such a structure change?
You can still probably do it if the database is not busy or you can try to increase timeout.
I was trying to find out the relevant quite recent thread on another forum, but unfortunately my search abilities are now faling me.
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