I spent decades writing software at various companies, mostly database related. I finally retired from Quest Diagnostics at 73. Now, a year and a half later, I needed to write software for my own use as I migrated from my old Win 8.1 machine (with MySQL) to my new Win11 machine. I was used to connecting to full-blown remote SQL Server at work, and getting the connection string just right for LocalDB was a challenge, but now conquered.