Trapping for Connection and Command Timeout

[Guest]

FW: 1.1

What is the best method for trapping timeout exceptions? There does not
seem to be specific exceptions thrown for connection or command timeout.
Should I check the message for "Timeout", or is there some other propery in
the exception that better identifies a connection or command timeout? Thanks
for your help.

 

[William \(Bill\) Vaughn]

Ah, I usually handle this in separate routines--one that connects, another
that queries. You can take this approach, close the "testing" connection and
use Fill that opens the connection and queries in the same atomic operation.
Yes, I expect you're going to have to do some parsing or experiment to see
what your provider returns s far as Error object properties and settings.

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[Thomas Weingartner]

Catch the Exceptions and evaluate the corresponding field:

Timeout: OleDbException.ErrorCode == -2147217871

Timeout: SqlException.Number == -2 (This is an ADO.NET error code)
General Network Error: SqlException.Number == 11
Deadlock: SqlException.Number == 1205 (This is an SQL Server error code)

We handle the "General Network Error" as a timeout exception too. It only occurs under rare circumstances e.g. when your update/insert/delete query will raise a long running trigger.


Greetings from Switzerland
Thomas

 

[Guest]

Bill/Thomas, thank you for your replies.

Catch the Exceptions and evaluate the corresponding field:

Timeout: OleDbException.ErrorCode == -2147217871

Timeout: SqlException.Number == -2 (This is an ADO.NET error code)
General Network Error: SqlException.Number == 11
Deadlock: SqlException.Number == 1205 (This is an SQL Server error code)

We handle the "General Network Error" as a timeout exception too. It only occurs under rare circumstances e.g. when your update/insert/delete query will raise a long running trigger.


Greetings from Switzerland
Thomas