>Hello all,
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>I have a console application (C#.NET) running that performs batch type job executions to my SQL Server database. Occassionally, I have been getting a SQL timeout error when running some jobs.
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>My question is what is the default timeout parameter for SQL Server in this situation? (I am guessing 30 seconds). Since this is a batch job, I want to increase the timeout parameter to at least 60 seconds or more. How do I do this? I would think it would be a parameter in the connection string in the config file but I haven't found anything yet in my searches on how do this.
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>TIA for any help with this.
>
>Bob

Depending on where the timeout is happening, see..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3752545/sql-server-2008-update-query-timeout

or

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177457.aspx (use sp_Configure to set it)