Re: Allowing Fully Qualified Queries

From: Andrew J. Kelly (sqlmvpnooospam_at_shadhawk.com)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 18:50:23 -0500

That is because you are referencing it incorrectly. It is not
Database.table but rather Database.own.table. If the owner is dbo you can
also substitute .. for dbo like this: YourDB..YourTable

Even when you are accessing objects int he same db you should get in the
habit of owner qualifying them lik:

SELECT * FROM dbo.Table 

-- 
Andrew J. Kelly  SQL MVP
"Carlo Razzeto" <crazzeto@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:%23kgd5Py2EHA.1404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hello there, I recently installed MS SQL server on one of my servers and I 
> have a question. When preforming a select I'm supposed to be able to refer 
> to a database table in the from clause by it's fully qualified name 
> (database.table) eg.
>
> SELECT * FROM NorthWind.Customers;
>
> How ever if I attempt to preform this type of query I get the following 
> error back
>
> "Unknown object....".
>
> How can SQL Server be configured to allow me to specifiy a database table 
> by it's fully qualified name?
>
> Carlo Razzeto
>

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