# Database Timeout with SQL Server

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/database-timeout-with-sql-server/137020>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 8, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/database-timeout-with-sql-server/137020 "2008-05-08T11:10:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnnybutler7)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/database-timeout-with-sql-server/137020/1 "2008-05-08T11:10:28Z")

</div>

Hi,

I keep getting databse timeout errors messages while running queries on  
my site.  
It is a large database but is there anyway to handle this using  
sqlserver by increasing the timout value or something?

JB