Believe me, I understand, but all I can do is ask. That said, if they are not responsive (pun fully intended!), I do have avenues to pursue it, and WILL.

Again,...

Dang. It's not helping my timeout problem. I'm using the same tiny test sp that updates only 1 field, but it still times out on me. I added this to...

I have been fiddling with it based on your suggestions (thanks!) and it's now actually working. This is what I did:

Didn't change the sp (see orig msg) except that the () were...

Followup: it seems that if I reverse the positions of the 2 params in the sp itself (following CREATE PROCEDURE), it consistently doesn't like the FIRST one, whichever one it...