EF 6 - Error taking too long

Question

When using the following connection string
Server=DoesNotExists; Database=DoesNotExistsEither; User ID=bla; Password=bla; Connection Timeout=5;
shouldn't any command against this connection string fail in 5 seconds?!? in my local machine it's taking about 30sec

Edit1
If i change the timeout to 20, it takes 1 min to fail...

Answer 1

Command timeout and connection timeout are not the same thing.

• Connection timeout: maximum time to (try to) establish connection to database
• Command timeout: maximum time a command is allowed to run

So in short: no, a command against that connectionstring should not fail after 5 seconds, if a connection is established.

See also this post.