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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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