When you specify the type of resource/s to search for, Storage Explorer will avoid wasting time enumerating and inspecting irrelevant resources.To help address feedback regarding the performance of searching for resources in the tree view, you can now specify what type of resource you are searching for.
Easily access virtual machine disks, and work with either Azure Resource Manager or classic storage accounts. You can use the DSInit Command-Line Tool at any time to configure the Windows Azure storage emulator to point to a different instance.Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer helps you upload, download, and manage Azure blobs, files, queues, and tables, as well as Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Data Lake Storage entities. Running the “DSInit /forceCreate” command results in all of the existing data in the local Blob and Queue service being lost. You must have administrative privileges to run the DSInit Command-Line Tool. When all steps are successfully completed, you should see a dialog like this: Or, you can use the following command, which reinitializes the database: You can also use the following command, which uses the default instance: Where is the name of the SQL Server instance. In the Windows Azure SDK Command Prompt window, type the following command: Right-click on Windows Azure SDK Command Prompt and then click Run as administrator.ģ. Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Windows Azure SDK.Ģ. To fix this and set a local SQL server instance manually, the following steps must be taken (in Windows 7):ġ. If no local SQL server is available or one is present but not well mapped, the emulator fails with a message above. This is not a Kentico CMS database yet - it is the Azure development storage database with the following structure: The background of this problem is that the Azure emulator needs a local SQL instance to create a development storage database on. Please configure the SQL Server instance for Development Storage using the ‘DSInit’ utility in the Windows Azure SDK. Failed to start Development Storage: the SQL Server instance XXX could not be found. When trying to run an Azure application on the Azure emulator (CTRL + F5 in the Visual Studio), you may encounter the following (or similar) error message:
This article describes how to initialize the Azure storage emulator on a local SQL server using the built-in DSInit Command-Line Tool.