Inconistent time out error during update operation.

Using our ASP.net application we are getting inconsistent results when we are trying to update a table with more than 15 update queries sequentially.

We are using Merge replication in our SQL server database. On updating one row, it invokes a trigger to update another table and one more trigger for the merge replication. At only few
instances, the update operation fails and it reports "Time out expired" error.

We are not able to simulate this error in the Test environment since it does not have replication. Can any one help me in resolving this issue.

Please advise .

Hi Krithi,

Is this SQL 2000 or SQL 2005?
Would the updates be touch a lot of rows? If so, I can understand the timeout because, it seems like there are multiple triggers here and also replication adds its own triggers on the tables. That bing the case, if the number of rows touched are large, timeouts can occur.

And are you doing the update operations through isqlw/Management Studio?
If so, can you increase the timeout value in the options in isqlw/Management Studio and try again?