Visual Studio Database Edition: What is causing "ModelException: At least one identifier expected."?

Question

We have a database project in Visual Studio 2008 that has been working great. Out of the blue, however, deployment stopped working. This is the error we get:

EZTrac.Database.dbschema : Deploy error TSD01234: Microsoft.Data.Schema.SchemaModel.ModelException: At least one identifier expected.

We've searched everywhere trying to debug this problem. The exception that's being thrown to the Ouput window is too generic to actually decipher anything. I know 'ModelException' gets thrown when there's a problem with the model, but I have no idea where to begin looking.

Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Edit:

We now have MSDN Premier support on the line about this. It's been about 4 days and they haven't been able to figure it out. I'll update with a solution if/when I get one.

Answer 1

After much back and forth troubleshooting with Microsoft Premiere support, we've been informed that we've found a bug in the database edition of Visual Studio. We gave up before it was resolved and ended up scrapping using the part of the database project in our solution.

The official workaround from Microsoft is to deploy the database project using an account which is able to see the account which granted the deploying account the VIEW DEFINITION permission.