So much has been written about the evils of custom actions ( namely of types: script, exe and instalutil ) but I've not read many comments regarding database deployments via sql scripts. I have an opinion thats been forming over the last decade: Database dependency injections in setup are evil. Unfortunatly, I also don't know if they are avoidable since many people expect an application to just work after being installed. Eitherway, what is the best of class solution? I've not seen one yet.