PRB: Package Will Not Install: Error 2235. Database:...

• Microsoft Windows Installer, version 1.0

SYMPTOMS

During the installation of a package, the following error appears:

Error 2235. Database: . Column 'Action' not present or ambiguous in SQL query: SELECT ...

CAUSE

Here are three reasons why this error may occur:

• The table definitions are incorrect because the package schema does not match the schema version in the summary information.



• The package being installed may not have a feature, a component, or may not have either. The Windows installer requires that every package have at least one feature AND one component.



• An action might have been called out of order. When this happens, the action is usually expecting some temporary columns to have been created on certain tables by a previous action, usually costing, and because the order was not correct, these columns are not present.

RESOLUTION

The Skemadif.exe tool should catch the database schema issue and report an error.

The workaround for the package not having a feature and/or a component is to add a fake feature and/or a fake component with only the minimal required fields filled with properly formatted data.

If validation is run on a package where the action ordering is incorrect, it should catch this error and report the error to the package author.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbAppSetup kbSDKPlatform kbMSI kbGrpDSTools 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: May 3, 1999