Solve azure "failed to start storage emulator: the SQL server instance '. \' could not be found ."

Because Windows 8 does not support SQL Server 2008r2.ProgramAn error occurred while connecting to the SQL Server 2008r2 database)

Then I have to install SQL Server 2012.

After the installation is complete, azure storage emulator cannot be started and the following error is prompted.

 
The storage emulator had an unexpected error: unable to start development storage .. error details: failed to start storage emulator: the SQL server instance '. \ 'could not be found. please configure the SQL server instance for storage emulator using the 'dsinit 'utility in the Windows azure SDK.
 

 

Because when SQL Server 2008 was used previously, the instance used was '.\'. The instance of SQL Server 2012 I newly installed is sqlexpress. You can use the following command to solve the problem.

 
C: \ Program Files \ microsoft sdks \ Windows azure \ emulator \ devstore>Dsinit/sqlinstance: sqlexpress
 

 

 

The following describes the entire operation process.