32GB "null" file in User folder- what is it?

I decided to see what was using the majority of my disk to free some space, and found this. Can it be deleted?

That file belongs in the system /bin folder. If you have a copy of it in your home folder, you can delete it, at least as far as the system is concerned. Don't delete the original or anything else in /bin.

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I'm not quite sure what to call it, but my "user folder" contains Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Movies, Music, etc. in Finder. It's the folder that is my name.
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I am currently logged in to my database engine using SSMS and Windows Authentication; specifically, I am logged in with Joe-PC\Joe, where Joe-PC is the domain name of the machine hosting the database, and Joe is the user that created the database.
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