UPDATED: September, 2019 Check the LocalDB instance You can easily connect to your LocalDB instance with DataGrip. And as a first step, check if your LocalDB instance is ready for a connection. Locate SqllocalDB.exe and run the SqllocalDB.exe i command in a terminal. You will see a list of available LocalDB instances on the server. To create an instance, run SqlLocalDB create "DEVELOPMENT" 14.0 -s. This command creates an instance of LocalDB named DEVELOPMENT by using SQL Server 2017 binaries and starts the instance. If you omit 14.0, the version number defaults to the version of th