#280 Uninstall should remove database

[Dave Musicant]

Uninstalling Enchilada (SQL Express version) leaves a database behind. Uninstalling SQL Express also similarly leaves SpASMSdb behind. If you reinstall SQL Express and Enchilada, an error occurs when Enchilada starts up and tries to rebuild the database (it fails). The workaround is to manually delete the SpASMS.mdb/ldf etc files in the SQL Express install.

Enchilada should automatically clean up after itself when you uninstall it by removing all databases (or yielding an option to.) If the database is allowed to possibly remain, rebuild needs to be fixed.

[Dave Musicant]

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See bug 1593867; how do these two relate?

[Dave Musicant]

I'm raising this bug to a priority 9 because I spent 1 hour in Deborah's office today trying to figure out why her re-install didn't work... to discover that this was the problem. :) Enchilada wouldn't restart because the database was not present (as far as SQL Server was concerned), but the files were out there. Deleting the files manually fixed the problem, but diagnosing it is tough!