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Azure SQL Database, EF Core EnableRetryOnFailure, and Connection Resiliency

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I’m checking in to using Azure SQL Database, and everything seems to be working well so far.

There is an option, however, that I must enable when the db context is configured to retry the connections on failure:

builder.UseSqlServer(connectionString, opt => opt.EnableRetryOnFailure());

When a query is made, it throws the following exception:

InvalidOperationException: The configured execution strategy 'SqlServerRetryingExecutionStrategy' does not support user initiated transactions. Use the execution strategy returned by 'DbContext.Database.CreateExecutionStrategy()' to execute all the operations in the transaction as a retriable unit.

There is more information about it here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/miscellaneous/connection-resiliency

Is there anything I can do in order to make this work?

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:7
Comments:27 (12 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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orionjensencommented, Mar 8, 2021

Yes. It seems this setting EnableRetryOnFailure is critical in order to host on Azure and this setting is not compatible with ABP.

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ismcagdascommented, Oct 6, 2021

@jacobmhulse I’m adding this item to 7.1 milestone. We will try to work on it after .NET 6 release.

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