Intermittent Connection Timeout in Azure SQL on AJAX Request

Question

I\'ve been hunting for this error that occurs intermittently on an AJAX call to an Azure ASP.NET Website, and today I\'ve finally caught it in our logs. I was suspecting a lock

Answer 1

It sounds like the problem is in the connection from the client to the Internet. If you are making the Ajax call in client-side JavaScript, it doesn't matter (at least as far as performance goes) whether the web app and database are in the same region. A very slow connection will call a timeout.

Since this is intermittent, I recommend catching this error in JavaScript and allowing prompting the client to retry the save.