
However there are several other ways to connect to and interact with SqlLocalDb instances. Unfortunately SqlLocalDb on its own only provides an interface to the engine it does not provide a means to interact with databases. Now that an instance is created and started, you'll probably want to do other things like create databases and run queries. Instance pipe name: np:\\.\pipe\LOCALDB#ABB78D50\tsql\query

In addition, the download for the SQL Express LocalDB runtime is only about 33 MB (or 27 MB, if you are still on x86), compared to the 100s of MBs required to download a full edition of SQL Server Express. Instead of installing a service and configuring security, they just start up an instance of this new LocalDB runtime as needed.

#What files can be deleted with sql 2012 express install
The purpose of this new feature is to provide developers with a local environment that is much easier to install and manage.

SQL Server 2012 introduces a new feature, SQL Express LocalDB.
