Symptoms
Assume that you enable SQL Server Managed Backup to Windows Azure on a database in Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or SP2. When the retention-based cleanup task executes the RESTORE HEADERONLY statement on large backup blobs, the execution may time out. Therefore, the retention-based cleanup task fails.This issue occurs because the default ADO.NET command time-out value is 30 seconds. However, the execution of the RESTORE HEADERONLY statement may exceed 30 seconds. This results in the time-out.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server:
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
