so the short answer is, no there is no idle timeout on the connection. 5 comments Contributor jamesRaybould commented on Mar 3, 2015 jamesRaybould mentioned this issue on Mar 5, 2015 #81 Treating timeouts as the connection being in a bad state #82 Merged Three of the most common ones are: You went to lunch and left your SQL Server Management Studio connection for longer than 30 minutes Step 1: Go to the firewall setting in your database server that you have already created. Purpose. The connection could have timed out while waiting for server to complete the login process and respond; Or it could have timed out while attempting to create multiple active connections. Recommended values are between 20 minutes and 24 hours. There is a 3-minute window between SQL Azure closing an idle connection and before the pool ejects the the idle connection where the connections in the pool is stale. Value must be greater than or equal to 10 minutes. This is available in all regions. Step 3: Finally click on save, you will get the notification that your firewall rules got updated. Windows Azure SQL Database provides a large-scale multi-tenant database service on shared resources. Applies to Feedback Submit and view feedback for This product This page This document describes how to configure and use the Dell PowerProtect Data Manager with the Microsoft application agent to back up and restore Microsoft SQL Server. After that, click on Add Client. The longest approx 50 mins. For example, if you are connected to your database through SQL Server Management Studio for longer than 30 minutes without having any active request your session will timeout and because there are no active requests SQL Azure can't return an error. connectionTimeout controls the amount of time that the app will wait for getting a connection from the pool. In these circumstances, SQL Azure will close an already established connection: The timeout period elapsed during the post-login phase. There is a 3-minute window between SQL Azure closing an idle connection and before the pool ejects the the idle connection where the connections in the pool is stale. Azure Load Balancer now supports sending bidirectional TCP resets on idle timeout for load balancing rules, inbound NAT rules, and outbound rules. When we connect to our Azure SQL Databases or Azure SQL Managed Instances databases using the "Proxy" connection policy and the session is still open without any activity, the Azure SQL Gateway will kill the session after being idle for more than 30 minutes. To adjust the "Connect Timeout" property, I modified the property as needed (in this case. Nullable < TimeSpan > By default, idle connections are kept open indefinitely. The frequency of repetition is about 2-3 seconds per client. Your guess is correct -- an idle connections in the pool is cleaned up after about 8 minutes but the SQL Azure closes idle connections after 5 minutes. According to the SSIS logs, it was just the time my packages ran until they failed, when that happened. Default is 30 sec, and it makes sense to keep it slightly higher than JDBC driver loginTimeout in case all connections in the pool are active and a new one needs to be created. If the serverless instance has been idle, it can take some time to wake up on an initial connection. // 'connectionTimeout` is the maximum number of milliseconds to wait trying to establish an // initial connection. The PowerProtect Data Manager Administration and User Guide provides additional details about configuration and usage procedures. These are individually executed from logic apps and this way were do not hit the 2 hour azure SQL database timeout issue. As per the Microsoft documentation In these circumstances, SQL Azure will close an already established connection: An idle connection was held by an application for more than 30 minutes. After the specified amount of time, an exception will be thrown.. On the topic of connectivity architecture, Azure SQL Database (Single Instance and Managed Pools) is a PaaS service and is served via a gateway. Use this ability to help applications gain visibility into when Standard Load Balancer terminates connections due to idle timeout. GitHub Checklist For long running jobs of the form: query the db run a long task update/query the db the second database access fails, causing the job to fail. For a long time we have been experiencing intermittent SQL timeout errors. Use az sql server conn-policyto change your connection policy to redirect. Remarks Mainly useful for sparse infrequent access to a large database account. The engine and session are defined in db.py engine = create_engine (URL (**settings.DATABASE)) session = scoped_session (sessionmaker (bind=engine)). Step 2: Now, click on Add existing virtual network and fill the required details, as shown in the figure below. Probably good for two reasons - 1) people will sometimes develop their app to open the connection once and keep it open for hte life of the app. Azure SQL Database supports the following three options for the connection policy setting of a SQL Database server: Keeping an MS SQL dataserver connection to an Azure MS SQL database open and inactive for 30 minutes Clarifying Information The Microsoft Azure cloud automatically disconnect ODBC connections to an Azure hosted MS SQL database when the ODBC connection to the database is idle for 30 minutes. How to close and reconnect to avoid idle -in-transaction timeout using SQLAlchemy Ask Question 3 I wrote a Python app which connects to Postgres DB using SQLAlchemy . This worked successfully until recently when one of the SProcs simply ends part way through; at or v close to the same step in the SProc. whether the user uses it or not. * Idle by the Azure SQL Gateway, where TCP keepalive messages might be occurring (making the connection not idle from a TCP perspective), but not had an active query in 30 minutes. This article introduces SQL Database and its network topology. A typical use case would be 5 back office windows open, and 25 end user windows open - all hitting the system repeatedly. Your guess is correct -- an idle connections in the pool is cleaned up after about 8 minutes but the SQL Azure closes idle connections after 5 minutes. Talend Studio Sql Server Database Azure +3 more In this scenario, the Gateway will determine that the TDS connection is idle at 30 minutes and terminate the connection. Login timeout When connecting to Azure SQL databases, the recommended default loginTimeout is 30 seconds. In order to provide a good experience to all SQL Database customers, your connection to the service may be closed due to several reasons, like throttling. So lets start breaking the limits in the scenarios below: 1 - Application connection pool setting 2 - Pre-login handshake error / WebApp high CPU 3 - Azure SQL DB connection limit 4 - SNAT Port Exhaustion 1 - Application connection pool setting This happens, for example, on Azure, which closes db connections after 30m of inacti. If you're connecting to a serverless instance, it's recommended to use an even longer loginTimeout of 60 seconds or more.