Question

ok – I know it’s bad move but we did eventually decided to save files into DB for convenience… Now the problems come.

We have a database called “XXX_DataStore” where we save uploaded files onto a table and we separate binary file data into a table called “FileData” so it will be used only when we need the data.

Each file is less than 60M (90% files are less than 1M ) , however it happens only from last week that when user uploads file that is larger than 50M, the system throws “SqlException Timeout” sort of exception (ASP.NET app) – any files less than 50M can be uploaded successfully?!

I’ve tried to increase the “Connection TimeOut” on sqlString in web.config and also the timeout for ASP.NET application request – none worked.

Any help on this?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

The timeout you need to increase is the SqlCommand timeout – this will default to 30 seconds.