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Oscar Garcia is a Principal Software Architect who resides in South Florida. He is a Microsoft MVP and certified solutions developer with many years of experience building enterprise software solutions. He specializes in building cloud solutions using technologies like AWS, Azure as well as data platform and BI projects for data visualization using SQL Server, Firebase, Redshift, JMP, Tableau and PowerBI. You can follow Oscar on Twitter @ozkary or his blog at www.ozkary.com
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Question of the Day

Getting The Database Name

I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.

sqlcmd -S localhost -E
At the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME()
GO
What is returned?

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