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

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Published on 2009-10-28T14:55:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 0:50 UTC
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Hello,

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?

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