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 ...

Microsoft SQL Server Express LocalDB is a feature of [!INCLUDE [ssexpress-md](../../includes/ssexpress-md.md)] targeted to developers. In [!INCLUDE [sssql25-md ...

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 ...

The easiest way to publish a c# application that uses a DB for Personal Use is to use a local-db. First thing First is to setup SQL Server Express LocalDB which copies a minimal set of files necessary ...

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Power BI + LocalDB Connection Issue — Root Cause & Fix While working on a Power BI prototype dashboard using a LocalDB ((localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB) setup, I ran into an interesting issue: Issue Faced ...

Having recently set up an old desktop as a dev machine in order to avoid trashing my main computer with evaluation software (don't get me started), I decided it was time to try out Visual Studio 11 ...