sqlite_busy_timeout Set busy timeout duration, or disable busy handlers. voidsqlite_busy_timeout resourcedatabase intmilliseconds Set the maximum time that sqlite will wait for a database to become ready for use to milliseconds. If milliseconds is 0, busy handlers will be disabled and sqlite will return immediately with a SQLITE_BUSY status code if another process/thread has the database locked for an update. PHP sets the default busy timeout to be 60 seconds when the database is opened. There are one thousand (1000) milliseconds in one second.