Q: about SQL timeout in ADO

  • Morning,

    How could I determine or trap when this might timeout?

    <%

    adCmdSPStoredProc=4

    adParamReturnValue=4

    adParamInput=1

    adParamOutput=2

    adInteger=3

    adVarChar=200

    oVal=3

    set CmdSP=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")

    CmdSP.CommandTimeout=60

    CmdSP.ActiveConnection=Session("StrConnect")

    CmdSP.CommandText="sp_CreateSalesAnalysisDB"

    CmdSP.CommandType=adCmdStoredProc

    CmdSP.Parameters.Append CmdSP.CreateParameter

    ("RETURN_VALUE",adInteger,adParamReturnValue,4)

    CmdSP.Parameters.Append CmdSP.CreateParameter

    ("@txtOriginalDatabase",adVarChar,adParamInput,255,DatabaseName)

    '

    CmdSP.Execute ,, ADODB.adExecuteNoRecords

    %>

    Calling this from an ASP page, in a nutshell it creates a backup of a database and restores it to another name so the user can do sales analysis without messing up the original. Problem is that on a large database, the backup/restore procedure might take more than a minute.

    When the connection timeout is reached is there anyway to know, either by the called proc dying and being able to trap/return a msg or from the ADO side?

    Not sure if this is a SQL question or an ADO programming question more so please forgive if this isn't the right forum 🙂

    regards,

    Chris

  • It should return a trappable error. You're giving the user more power than I would. An alternative way to do this is to run a proc that sticks a row in a table, have a job that checks the table every min, if found, does the copy/restore process. Your app can then either check for the status of the inserted row to change, or periodically try the new db until its available.

    Andy

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/

  • I would suggest that you use the error handler, in the error handler check the err object for the ADO timeout error number, you can then set the CmdSP.CommandTimeout to a higher value and re-run the ADO Command

    On Error Goto ErrorHandler

    ....

    ....

    CmdSP.Execute .....

    Exit Function

    ErrorHandler:

    If Err.Number = <ADO Timeout Val> then

    CmdSP.CommandTimeout = 120

    resume

    else

    <log other error>

    end if

    Exit Function

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