diff --git a/src/Bootstrappers/CacheTenancyBootstrapper.php b/src/Bootstrappers/CacheTenancyBootstrapper.php
index 0d948591..20e09816 100644
--- a/src/Bootstrappers/CacheTenancyBootstrapper.php
+++ b/src/Bootstrappers/CacheTenancyBootstrapper.php
@@ -101,19 +101,19 @@ class CacheTenancyBootstrapper implements TenancyBootstrapper
 
         if ($this->config->get('tenancy.cache.scope_sessions', true)) {
             // These are the only cache driven session backends (see Laravel's config/session.php)
-            if (! in_array($this->config->get('session.driver'), ['redis', 'memcached', 'dynamodb', 'apc'], true)
-                && ! app()->environment('local')
-            ) {
-                // We only throw this exception in prod to make configuration a little easier. Developers
-                // may have scope_sessions set to true while using different session drivers e.g. in tests.
-                // Previously we just silently ignored this, however since session scoping is of high importance
-                // in production, we make sure to notify the developer, by throwing an exception, that session
-                // scoping isn't happening as expected/configured due to an incompatible session driver.
-                throw new Exception('Session driver [' . $this->config->get('session.driver') . '] cannot be scoped by tenancy.cache.scope_session');
+            if (! in_array($this->config->get('session.driver'), ['redis', 'memcached', 'dynamodb', 'apc'], true)) {
+                if (app()->environment('production')) {
+                    // We only throw this exception in prod to make configuration a little easier. Developers
+                    // may have scope_sessions set to true while using different session drivers e.g. in tests.
+                    // Previously we just silently ignored this, however since session scoping is of high importance
+                    // in production, we make sure to notify the developer, by throwing an exception, that session
+                    // scoping isn't happening as expected/configured due to an incompatible session driver.
+                    throw new Exception('Session driver [' . $this->config->get('session.driver') . '] cannot be scoped by tenancy.cache.scope_session');
+                }
+            } else {
+                // Scoping sessions using this bootstrapper implicitly adds the session store to $names
+                $names[] = $this->getSessionCacheStoreName();
             }
-
-            // Scoping sessions using this bootstrapper implicitly adds the session store to $names
-            $names[] = $this->getSessionCacheStoreName();
         }
 
         $names = array_unique($names);
diff --git a/src/Database/TenantDatabaseManagers/SQLiteDatabaseManager.php b/src/Database/TenantDatabaseManagers/SQLiteDatabaseManager.php
index 898a30bc..295cf304 100644
--- a/src/Database/TenantDatabaseManagers/SQLiteDatabaseManager.php
+++ b/src/Database/TenantDatabaseManagers/SQLiteDatabaseManager.php
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ class SQLiteDatabaseManager implements TenantDatabaseManager
 
             $name = '_tenancy_inmemory_' . $tenant->getTenantKey();
             $tenant->setInternal('db_name', "file:$name?mode=memory&cache=shared");
+            $tenant->save();
 
             return true;
         }