Automatic retry of transaction when a database timeout error occurs

We've noticed some database connection blips that cause errors such as the following exception: "System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.CommitFailedException: An error was reported while committing a database transaction but it could not be determined whether the transaction succeeded or failed on the database server. See the inner exception and http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=313468 for more information. ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Execution Timeout Expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.

Operation cancelled by user. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The wait operation timed out"

Upon asking through a support ticket (https://support.optimizely.com/hc/en-us/requests/1231518) we were told this symptoms can be mitigated through a retry of the database operation: "Most of our APIs require that a single "unit of work" (a wrapped entity framework DB context) survive the full duration of that API call. A simple timeout error may be recoverable via code change that re-tries the query"