The LocalDB installation uses a single set of binaries per major SQL Server version. These LocalDB versions are maintained and patched independently. This means that the user has to specify which ...

LocalDB was created so that developers that use SQL Server no longer have to install and manage a full instance of SQL Server Express on their laptops or other machines. Plus, developers can take this ...

This article is just a note for something I forget the most: my LocalDB instance names. Sometimes when I open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) I lose time thinking and trying to figure out what is ...

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