<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Gavin Hurlbut <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gjhurlbu@gmail.com">gjhurlbu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com" target="_blank">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>To be honest, I'm not entirely certain how you got a table with a period</div>
in the name in the first place, much less how to remove it.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>That's the canonical name of a table inside the database (in form databasename.tablename). Therefore, you don't need to do "use mythconverg" before the drop or truncate as you completely specified the table. </div>
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</blockquote></div><br><div>oooh, I see now. mythconverg.mythconverg.table?! OK, now that's a new screwup, for sure. Never seen that before.</div><div><br></div>