Increasing the Command Timeout for SQL command

Question

I have a little problem and hoping someone can give me some advice. I am running a SQL command, but it appears it takes this command about 2 mins to return the data as there is a lot of data. But the default connection time is 30 secs, how do I increase this, and apply it to this command?

public static DataTable runtotals(string AssetNumberV, string AssetNumber1V)
{
    DataTable dtGetruntotals;

    try
    {
        dtGetruntotals = new DataTable("Getruntotals");

        //SqlParameter AssetNumber = new SqlParameter("@AssetNumber", SqlDbType.VarChar, 6);
        //AssetNumber.Value = AssetNumberV; 

        SqlParameter AssetNumber = new SqlParameter("@AssetNumber", SqlDbType.VarChar, 10);
        AssetNumber.Value = AssetNumberV;

        SqlParameter AssetNumber1 = new SqlParameter("@AssetNumber1", SqlDbType.VarChar, 10);
        AssetNumber1.Value = AssetNumber1V;

        SqlCommand scGetruntotals = new SqlCommand("EXEC spRunTotals @AssetNumber,@AssetNumber1 ", DataAccess.AssetConnection); 
        // scGetruntotals.Parameters.Add(AssetNumber);
        scGetruntotals.Parameters.Add(AssetNumber);
        scGetruntotals.Parameters.Add(AssetNumber1);

        SqlDataAdapter sdaGetruntotals = new SqlDataAdapter();
        sdaGetruntotals.SelectCommand = scGetruntotals;
        sdaGetruntotals.Fill(dtGetruntotals);

        return dtGetruntotals;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Error Retriving totals Details: Processed with this error:" + ex.Message);
        return null;
    }
}

Answer 1

it takes this command about 2 mins to return the data as there is a lot of data

Probably, Bad Design. Consider using paging here.

default connection time is 30 secs, how do I increase this

As you are facing a timeout on your command, therefore you need to increase the timeout of your sql command. You can specify it in your command like this

// Setting command timeout to 2 minutes
scGetruntotals.CommandTimeout = 120;

Answer 2

Add timeout of your SqlCommand. Please note time is in second.

// Setting command timeout to 1 second
scGetruntotals.CommandTimeout = 1;

Answer 3

Since it takes 2 mins to respond, you can increase the timeout to 3 mins by adding the below code

scGetruntotals.CommandTimeout = 180;

Note : the parameter value is in seconds.

Answer 4

Setting command timeout to 2 minutes.

 scGetruntotals.CommandTimeout = 120;

but you can optimize your stored Procedures to decrease that time! like

• removing courser or while and etc
• using paging
• using #tempTable and @variableTable
• optimizing joined tables

Answer 5

Setting CommandTimeout to 120 is not recommended. Try using pagination as mentioned above. Setting CommandTimeout to 30 is considered as normal. Anything more than that is consider bad approach and that usually concludes something wrong with the Implementation. Now the world is running on MiliSeconds Approach.