diff --git a/src/utils_DB_connection.jl b/src/utils_DB_connection.jl
index d951005609549a864feaeb904bffdc3f1cdd6eb9..08c90cf9a43718ded3c285f3722c9b04da7b265a 100644
--- a/src/utils_DB_connection.jl
+++ b/src/utils_DB_connection.jl
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ function establish_connection(host::String, user::String, password::String, dbna
     # Establish connection
     conn = MySQL.Connection(host, user, password, dbname, port, "nothing")
     # Temporarily increase max_allowed_packet
-    size_query = "SET SESSION max_allowed_packet=1073741824;"  # Sets max_allowed_packet to 1GB
+    size_query = "SET GLOBAL max_allowed_packet=1073741824;"  # Sets max_allowed_packet to 1GB
     timeout_query = "SET SESSION wait_timeout = 31536000;"     # Sets wait_timeout to 1 year
-    maxtime_query = "SET SESSION max_execution_time = 604800000;"  # Sets max_execution_time to 1 week
+    maxtime_query = "SET SESSION MAX_STATEMENT_TIME=604800000;"  # Sets max_execution_time to 1 week
     try
         # Execute session variable adjustments
         DBInterface.execute(conn, size_query)