I hate software that assumes things about database instances

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I recently had to install some software that wouldn't run because I gave my SQL Server instance a descriptive name. There was no (or at least not easy) way to get it to use anything other than the default name "MSSQLSERVER". At the same time I removed my SQL Express which my Azure storage emulator used so I had to fix that one too... At least that is fairly easy: DSInit /sqlInstance:.