How do I set a SQL Server script's timeout from within the script?

Question

I have a large script file (nearly 300MB, and feasibly bigger in the future) that I am trying to run. It has been suggested in the comments of Gulzar\'s answer to my questi

Answer 1

sqlcmd -t {n}

Where {n} must be a number between 0 and 65535.

Note that your question is a bit misleading since the server has no concept of a timeout and therefore you cannot set the timeout within your script.

In your context the timeout is enforced by sqlcmd