SQL: Connecting to LocalDB from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
I saw a question on the Q&A forums about how to connect to the LocalDB version of SQL Server from SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). I thought it was worth posting a walkthrough of how to do it.
LocalDB
The first thing to understand about LocalDB is that it doesn’t run as a service. You fire it up as an attached process to another program. The basic idea was that you’d use it from Visual Studio or Azure Data Studio, and those programs would instantiate it as required.
2024-04-21