An integer value indicating the maximum time period in seconds that ODP.NET waits for the service to drain connections from the database service from when the Fast Application Notification SERVICE DOWN event is received.

Declaration

// C#
public int DrainTimeout {get;}

Property Value

The number of seconds allowed for resource draining to be completed during a planned outage

Remarks

When connecting to Oracle Data Guard in Oracle Database 12c Release 2 or later, database administrators can set their own timeout value, drain_timeout, to indicate the number of seconds allowed for resource draining to be completed during a planned outage. The drain_timeout value populates OracleHAEventArgs.DrainTimeout.drain_timeout can be used by the ODP.NET ServiceRelocationConnectionTimeout to wait for a service to be relocated before attempting new connections.