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Running Azure dev storage without an SQLExpress instance
November 29, 2011 - 100 words - 1 mins
If, like me, you think the SQL Express named instance is a blight on humanity and refuse to sully your dev machine with it, you'll run into issues trying to start up Azure development storage: "Failed to start Development Storage: the SQL Server instance ‘localhost\SQLExpress’ could not be found".
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