Azure Storage Emulator fails after adding VS 2015 SDK

Question

I\'ve had the Azure SDK 2.5 and Tools for VS2013 installed and working fine for quite a while. Today I installed the SDK and Tools for VS2015 and now my Azure Storage Emulat

Answer 1

You can use the following process to recover from most init problems involving the database. Note that any data in the emulator currently will be lost.

Delete the SQL instance:

sqllocaldb stop MSSQLLocalDB
sqllocaldb delete MSSQLLocalDB

Now delete the following database files:

%USERPROFILE%\AzureStorageEmulatorDb*.mdf
%USERPROFILE%\AzureStorageEmulatorDb*.ldf

Finally, recreate the sql instance:

sqllocaldb start MSSQLLocalDB

Then retry the emulator init.

Answer 2

I tried to clean up localdb but didn't work, so anyone has an issue running storage emulator with local db can benefit from this command to run it on SqlExpress.

Command: AzureStorageEmulator.exe init -server . -sqlinstance SQLEXPRESS -forcecreate