RE: [Rainbowportal-devel] Overhaul of installation document

[John H. <jh...@va...>]

Dear Manu,
	I realise you work very hard on Rainbow, I do not mean my comments to soun=
d like a personal attack in any way whatsoever. If I have offended you then=
 I apologise profusely. However, you _did_ write in the release notes for t=
he .msi regarding this particular change that :-

"- Clean install works on case sensitive installation
  (this do not mean a full test is done, only that clean install does not g=
ive errors)"=20

and that reinforces Charles's concern. As to my specific problem I think we=
 must have a misunderstanding due to language differences.=20

You ask:-=20

<There is any special reason to use a case sensitive database?>

My previous e-mail specifically said :-=20

"a Case-Sensitive Server (read Instance) collation and a _Non-Case_ sensiti=
ve _Database_ collation. "

So my _database_ is NOT case sensitive but the _server_ is.
=20
As I have said before I cannot change this. I do not own the server and it =
runs various business critical applications which are case-sensitive. I rea=
lise we could uninstall SQL Server, reinstall a case insensitive Instance a=
nd create all the Business Critical databases as Case Sensitive and hope th=
ey still work. But I can't possibly justify this on a production server jus=
t to try out a CMS solution which is still under development.

The only other solution I see is to buy more licenses which will alow me to=
 install a case insensitive Instance. I work in a developing country and we=
 just don't have the money to do things like this, especially when I am sti=
ll trying to "sell" the idea of Rainbow to people here.

I appreciate what you have been saying (and doing to try and fix this) but =
I know from several attempts on different machines with various version sin=
ce RC2 that if you have a Case Sensitive Instance it doesn't matter what yo=
u do with your individual database, Rainbow won't work. Someone else report=
ed an identical problem in the support forums a while ago but I can't searc=
h them just now as the engine doesn't appear to be working at the moment!

So to wind up. I really do appreciate what you are doing. I share Charles's=
 concern that non-techos will be disappointed if they hit snags which those=
 of you who can set up different configurations to get around, don't see as=
 "real" problems. Finally I won't ever mention this problem again as I have=
 done it too often aready. I _will_ try the new .msi and if it works I will=
 let you know. Otherwise I will just hope that the problem goes away before=
 my target audience gets bored and someone sells them on the idea of mambo =
which to me would be a tragedy given all the excellent work and effort you =
(Manu) and all the others have put in.

John Herd


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