Powershell stuck in infinite loop - powershell

Question

I have powershell code that takes an array, goes through each element and updates an SQL database on another server.
It seems to get stuck in the following code
do{
try{
$cmd_update = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand($sql_update,$conn_update)
$found = $cmd_update.ExecuteNonQuery()
$num_moved=$num_moved+1
$timestamp = Get-Date
Add-Content D:\Script\Output_SCHOOLS_Default_Group.log "Moving $ip, SEP version $sep_version to $group_name, $timestamp`r"
Write-host Moving $ip, SEP version $sep_version to $group_name, $timestamp
$transactionComplete = $true
}
catch{
$transactionComplete = $false
}
} until ($transactionComplete)
It will stay in this look until $transactionComplete, which may never happen, depending on system bottlenecks.
How do I exit the look if 1 minute has passed and $transactionComplete is still false?

Answer 1

You can introduce one more condition that checks if the total time spent executing is more than one minute.
For example,
$MaxTime = new-timespan -Minutes 1
$StopWatch = [Diagnostics.StopWatch]::StartNew()
do{
try{
$cmd_update = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand($sql_update,$conn_update)
$found = $cmd_update.ExecuteNonQuery()
$num_moved=$num_moved+1
$timestamp = Get-Date
Add-Content D:\Script\Output_SCHOOLS_Default_Group.log "Moving $ip, SEP version $sep_version to $group_name, $timestamp`r"
Write-host Moving $ip, SEP version $sep_version to $group_name, $timestamp
$transactionComplete = $true
}
catch{
$transactionComplete = $false
}
} until ($transactionComplete -or (-not $StopWatch.Elapsed))

Answer 2

Put this before the loop:
$start = Get-Date
And put this at the end of the catch block:
if (((Get-Date)-$start).TotalMinutes -gt 1) {
$transactionComplete = $true
}