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

You can accomplish this by adding "Connect Timeout=90" to the connection string. If your query is taking longer than 30 seconds though you should really consider optimizing the query somehow. Indexes may need to be added or a view might need to be created, etc.

Edited to correct issue pointed out by @Stijn comments.