Support for Named Pipe connection

[robustsoftware]

Support for a named pipe connection, so that java application can connect to LocalDB instance.

[peterbae]

Hi @robustsoftware, support for named pipes is in our backlog but there is no timeline for it at this time. You can refer to #769 for the discussion that took before.

[koenig-dominik]

Any timing on this issue?

Currently it's not possible to connect to a LocalDB via any official driver.

Even the jTDS Driver workaround does not work (at least the official one) as that always creates paths like this:
\\.\pipe\MSSQL$LOCALDB#XXXXXXXX\sql\query
Where the \pipe\MSSQL$ and \sql\query parts are not changeable

The sqllocaldb info command outputs somethind like this:
np:\\.\pipe\LOCALDB#XXXXXXXX\tsql\query

It's only possible with a fork of jTDS which is not available on any maven repository
https://github.com/milesibastos/jTDS/ (I did not test that)

[David-Engel]

Any timing on this issue?

No. This item is still in the backlog but has no timeline associated with it.

Regards,
David