MDAC 2.5 SDK - OLE DB Programmer's Reference
Appendix C: OLE DB Properties
Property group: Initialization
Property set: DBPROPSET_DBINIT
Type: VT_I4
Typical R/W: R/W
Description: Connect Timeout
Indicates the amount of time (in seconds) to wait for initialization to complete.
For maximum user concurrency and component interoperability, providers for whom initialization is a potentially lengthy operation—for example, connection across a network—are strongly encouraged to support this property.