kevan.emmott.com » assume http://kevan.emmott.com "cannonballs and acorns" Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:31:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Don't Make Assumptions in Your Installers http://kevan.emmott.com/2009/04/dont-make-assumptions-in-your-installers/ http://kevan.emmott.com/2009/04/dont-make-assumptions-in-your-installers/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:54:54 +0000 kevan@emmott.com http://kevan.emmott.com/2009/04/14/dont-make-assumptions-in-your-installers/ TIBCO iProcess Engine makes an assumption when it installs. It assumes that the database owner name and the schema name for that user will match. With a standard mixed-mode SQL Server 2005 install this would be fine – throw Windows Integrated Authentication (WIA) in the mix and it gets complicated. SQL2k5 creates a dbo user, linked to a domain account, and a dbo schema. TIBCO assumes the schema name will match what it resolves the dbowner to (domain/user). It doesn’t allow you to override this. It doesn’t take what SQL2k5 says is the default schema for the user. It makes an assumption. Which then results in a error during installation or the creation of a schema that can break enterprise standards. And it’s just ugly.

Don’t make assumptions in your installers.

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