Problem with Hyphen in server name?

Hi all, My sql server has a hyphen in its name, and I've noticed I can't use a fully qualified reference, server.database.owner.table. Is this a known bug?, what's the fix apart from renaming?

This is standard version, not a beta.

Hi Meltdown,

this is anugly things having a hyphen,or any other character in the server name, but putting brackets around that should solve the problem.

[server].database.owner.table

HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.

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Thanks for the reply Jens, unfortunately the brackets don't seem to solve it, I now get the following error when I run my code

Select [DYFLIN-SQL].DyflinSQLDB.dbo.tblGroups.GroupName From tblGroups;

Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Line 6

The multi-part identifier "DYFLIN-SQL.DyflinSQLDB.dbo.tblGroups.GroupName" could not be bound.

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Try with

set quoted_identifier off

Select "DYFLIN-SQL".DyflinSQLDB.dbo.tblGroups.GroupName From tblGroups;

GO

Cheers,

Sunny

|||Thanks for trying Sunny, that doesn't work, it returns the following error:

Msg 258, Level 15, State 1, Line 5

Cannot call methods on varchar

...although GroupName is of datatype nvarchar

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Could it be something like :

Select a.groupName from [DYFLIN-SQL].DyflinSqlDB.dbo.tblGroups as a ?

|||Thanks a lot Jp, you've cracked it, that works perfectly, much appreciated.|||You're welcome! ;)