Lena stared at the Azure DevOps pipeline logs, a waterfall of red text cascading down her screen. The error was always the same: “SqlException: Cannot open database "WidgetMetrics_Test" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM'.”
“What’s that?”
There was only one ghost in the machine. Lena discovered it on a late-night debugging session. The error appeared randomly: “LocalDB instance pipe name too long.” mssqllocaldb