ODBC Timout. Error 3146

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ODBC Timout. Error 3146

Chubbly Geezer

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July 29, 2005 at 10:53 am

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I have an Access 2003 databse with tables linked to an SQL back end.
I have a piece of code that creates and attempts to open a recordset on one of these linked tables.
However I get ODBC call failed error 3146 or such like.
Looping through the errors collection it seems the request has timed out.
Any ideas.?

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Cory Perkins SSChasing Mays Points: 638 More actions · Answer 1

Would you mind posting the code that creates the recordset?

SQLArch Ten Centuries Points: 1322 More actions · Answer 2

You can try increasing ODBC timout for Access query. I think default is 60 secounds by Access.

nuno paiva Old Hand Points: 352 More actions · Answer 3

hello there,

I had to deal with something similar when migrating some ms access apps to sql server...

I've just changed the ODBC timeout property in the query designer to 0secs. You can do this programatically also through ADO

Hope it helps,

Nuno Paiva

Chubbly Geezer Old Hand Points: 307 More actions · Answer 4

Cheers guys

but the problem is when accessing a linked table via code.

i.e. linked table = 'subscriptions'

code =

dim mydb as database

set mydb = currentdb()

dim myrs as recordset

set myrs = mydb.openrecordset("subscriptions")

This times out with an ODBC 3146 error. I have also tried accessing the table directly on the server via ADO, but that times out also unless I set the timeout = 0 (which I don't like doing except for testing) in which case it just hangs.

Incidentaly, this code is found in the middle of quite a large module that opens many recordsets. If I create a stand alone module and try to access the table via ADO (only tried that so far) it works fine.

I'm thinking there is a problem somewhere with the number of connections to the database.?

Cory Perkins SSChasing Mays Points: 638 More actions · Answer 5

While the code is hanging you might want to check out the locks on the subscription table to see if something else is blocking it.

fromnaija SSCrazy Points: 2876 More actions · Answer 6

I ran into this error just today, also from an MS Access linked table to SQL Server. Running DBCC INDEXDEFRAG on the SQL Server table fixed the issue.

Joseph