Tracy Boggiano

Tracy is the Database Superhero for ChannelAdvisor. She has spent over 20 years in IT and has used SQL Server since 1999. Tracy covers all aspects of administration and deals heavily with performance tuning and high availability and disaster recovery. Tracy is a co-organizer of a Special Interest Group (SIG) dedicated to advanced DBA topics in our local user group TriPass. She is also the founder of http://WeSpeakLinux.com. Before she worked full-time as a DBA she was formally a developer and network administrator. She also tinkered with databases in middle/high school to keep her sports card collection organized.

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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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