QUESTION POSED ON: 02 July 2004 I get the following error message when trying to connect to a Web-based
application:
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Timeout expired
Can you tell me what I can do to fix this problem? Thank you.
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It appears your application is timing out when attempting to connect to
SQL Server. This may be due to a slow network connection, or busy
network etc. The connection timeout usually defaults to 15 seconds, the
first thing I would try to do is to increase this by changing the
"Connect Timeout" parameter of your connection string to a larger value
(such as 30 for 30 seconds).
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