Before I write it off as a hardware/perf issue, I wanted to make sure my code wasn't in anyway responsible.<BR><BR>Here's the meat of the error:<BR>System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Timeout expired.

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System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser' threw an exception. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for ...