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At a PowerShell prompt when I run

sqllocaldb info mssqllocaldb

I get the following response:

Name: MSSQLLocalDB

Version: 15.0.4382.1

Shared name:

Owner: TARDIS\rodf

Auto-create: Yes

State: Stopped

Last start time: 1/8/2025 6:55:04 PM

Instance pipe name:

It looks...

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