“The specified table does not exist” - for the administrator it does! Vista only issue

Question

I've got a weird bug occurring in a compact database on a Vista deployment machine. Basically the sdf file seem to be schizophrenic.

The client application get the entitled error when running as a user but not when I use run as administrator. I don't see this problem on my XP development machine.

I installed management studio onto the deployment machine and opened two versions of the application, one as user and one as administrator. When I query:

SELECT TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES

I see 21 tables on the one and 26 on the other, and the administrator is seeing less tables. It turns out that the user version, with 26 rows, is a previous incarnation of this database.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

Answer 1

The issue seems to revolve around a cached version of the database being created during installation to the deployment machine.

edit

vista virtual file store is to blame. We altered the application to use the All User Profile area for dumping the data in.