Installation of Sterling Integrator fails with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Symptom

The following error is logged in PreinstallSI.log:

[java] ErrorDescription="Error_description_not_available" ErrorRelatedMoreInfo="">
[java] <Attribute Name="ErrorCode" Value="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException"/>
[java] <Attribute Name="ErrorDescription" Value="Error_description_not_available"/>
[java] <Error
[java] ErrorCode="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException"
[java] ErrorDescription="" ErrorRelatedMoreInfo="The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'sp_columns_100', database 'mssqlsystemresource', schema 'sys'.">
[java] <Stack>com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'sp_columns_100', database 'mssqlsystemresource', schema 'sys'.&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDatabaseError(SQLServerException.java:197)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.getNextResult(SQLServerStatement.java:1493)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerPreparedStatement.doExecutePreparedStatement(SQLServerPreparedStatement.java:390)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerPreparedStatement$PrepStmtExecCmd.doExecute(SQLServerPreparedStatement.java:340)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSCommand.execute(IOBuffer.java:4575)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.executeCommand(SQLServerConnection.java:1400)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeCommand(SQLServerStatement.java:179)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerStatement.executeStatement(SQLServerStatement.java:154)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerPreparedStatement.executeQueryInternal(SQLServerPreparedStatement.java:296)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDatabaseMetaData.getResultSetFromStoredProc(SQLServerDatabaseMetaData.java:284)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDatabaseMetaData.getResultSetWithProvidedColumnNames(SQLServerDatabaseMetaData.java:300)&#xd;
[java] at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDatabaseMetaData.getColumns(SQLServerDatabaseMetaData.java:603)&#xd;
[java] at com.yantra.tools.migrator.custom.CustomEntityDBHome.loadMetaData(CustomEntityDBHome.java:139)&#xd;