How do I increase the timeout period for my stored procedure call (see error)?

Question

 Timeout expired.  The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during t         


        

Answer 1

Perhaps this doesn't apply, but I think it should be mentioned none the less. The default CommandTimeOut is 30 seconds. This should be plenty of time for any actions that are happening in 99.9% of a web application. Unless you are absolutely sure that the action should take longer than that, you should spend your time trying to optimize the sql so that it returns in <30 seconds. Proper indexing is a good place to start for that.