Nico Neugebauer

Niko Neugebauer is Microsoft Data Platform professional. A SQL Server MVP, he is very passionate about Data Platform (with a focus on Columnstore) and Community.

He is a founder and a leader of the Portuguese SQL Server User Group, SQLPort and a co-founder of 2 more Data Platform User Groups in his home country.
His passion for community led him to organise the first SQLSaturday outside of North America – #78 Portuga. Niko presented at a number of different conferences, including PASS Summit, SQLRallys, SQLBits, and SQLSaturdays around the world.

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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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