c# - What Happens To a Query If It Times Out?

Question

Let's say I have a query that is sent to my SQL-Server database, it takes more than 30 seconds, and my program throws an SQL Query Timeout exception. Is the query still chugging along on my database or does it get terminated as soon as the exception is thrown?

Answer 1

A client signals a query timeout to the server using an attention event. An attention event is simply a distinct type of TDS packet a SQL Server client can send to it. In addition to connect/disconnect, T-SQL batch, and RPC events, a client can signal an attention to the server. An attention tells the server to cancel the connection's currently executing query (if there is one) as soon as possible. An attention doesn't rollback open transactions, and it doesn't stop the currently executing query on a dime -- the server aborts whatever it was doing for the connection at the next available opportunity. Usually, this happens pretty quickly, but not always.

Source There's no such thing as a query timeout...