diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0692427..77c37e8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["json"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.38.0", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread", "full", "time", "signal"]}
-sqlx = { version = "0.7", features = [ "runtime-tokio", "postgres"] } 
+sqlx = { version = "0.8.2", features = [ "runtime-tokio", "postgres"] } 
 anyhow = "1.0.58"
 chrono = "0.4"
 
diff --git a/src/db_utils.rs b/src/db_utils.rs
index 3b8bd58..b73a6dc 100644
--- a/src/db_utils.rs
+++ b/src/db_utils.rs
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ pub async fn check_blaze_connection(blaze_base_url: &str, num_attempts: u32) ->
             }
         }
         attempts += 1;
-        tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_secs(5)).await; //@todo: move param somewhere else?
+        tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_secs(60)).await; //@todo: move param somewhere else?
     }
     Err(err.unwrap_or_else(|| anyhow!("Failed to connect to Blaze")))