Question

I’m trying to restore a database by using the following code

string Restore = @"RESTORE DATABASE [" + dbname+ "] FROM DISK = N'" + filePath + "' WITH REPLACE, FILE = 1,  NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10";
SqlCommand RestoreCmd = new SqlCommand(Restore, con);
RestoreCmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

it returns me a timeout expired error, I have set connect timeout=300 in the connectionstring

but by running only the t-sql script
RESTORE DATABASE [dbname] FROM DISK = N’filepath’ WITH REPLACE, FILE = 1, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
it works fine

what should i do to fix this?

Answer 1

Set the CommandTimeout property of you RestoreCmd like so:

RestoreCmd.CommandTimeout = 300;