what kind of file is dbo files

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Tony Johansson

Hello!

In the Data Connection(Server Explorer) in Visual Studio I have connected to
the nortwind database.
and the extension for the nortwind database is dbo.
The complete name is: MyServer\sqlexpress.Northwind.dbo
I mean that a database file has extension mdf so I just wonder why is the
extension dbo ?

//Tony
 
* Tony Johansson said:
The complete name is: MyServer\sqlexpress.Northwind.dbo
I mean that a database file has extension mdf so I just wonder why is the
extension dbo ?
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That's not a file but a database connection. MyServer is the host,
sqlexpress the instance, Northwind the database (catalog) and dbo the
special user/role "database owner".
 
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