Mssqllocaldb ((full)) -

The team adopted it overnight.

She ran the pipeline. Green. Beautiful, unbroken green. The build agent’s disk footprint? 400 MB for the LocalDB binaries. No services left running. No leftovers. Just a clean, ephemeral, perfect database that lived and died inside the test run. mssqllocaldb

Her lead, Marcus, had a tired solution: “Just use SQLite for tests.” The team adopted it overnight

The build was failing. Again.