While revising SQL, I was often confused by the details: Server vs. Engine, or how SSMS actually connects to the DB.
After diving deep now everything is finally crystal clear! Sharing the full flow below .
Uploaded my 5 SQL projects to GitHub and later deleted the same folder on my laptop thinking it was a duplicate. I didn’t realise GitHub synced the deletion… and the whole project vanished.
Never going to clean folders blindly. 🥲