Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/05/41 11:36

serge (sergea@nospam.ehmail.com) writes:
> The mass update is causing this to become:
>
> SELECT dbo.CLIENT.FIRSTNAME,
> dbo.CLIENT.LASTNAME
> FROM dbo.CLIENT
> ...
>
> My goal is to see FROM dbo.CLIENT
> but even the column names are getting the "dbo."
> added, so my question is if there's any performance
> loss or any other side effect if I end up all my columns
> with a preceeding "dbo."?

I doubt that there is any performance loss on the computer side. On
the human side of things, there is likely to be. Personally, I always
use alias to prefix my columns. Having dbo.tablename. repeated all
over the query is a good way to hide a forest putting trees in front
of it.


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