Can't find umbraco data storage

Question

I have installed Umbraco via WebMatrix, and entered "server=(localdb)\v11.0;integrated security=true" as a connection string. The site works fine, but I can't find the database that Umbraco have created. When I open the (localdb)\v11.0, it's not there.

I have tried searching whole system with *.mdf. but no luck. Where can the data be?

I am using umbraco 4.8.0

Answer 1

I have found it. With no Database defined, SQL server uses the first or the default database in the list, which appears to master database. SSMS and such, don't display tables of system objects, so I found the tables by querying the database.

Answer 2

Most likely the database is in the user profile folder of the account that Umbraco is running under. See this post for more complete explanation. You may also want to look at this other post about why LocalDB by default puts the database file in the root of the user profile of the account it runs under.