>>One stupid question: why "dbo." ?
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>What John said.
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>We use Sybase on my particular account. I've never tried leaving out the dbo. It may be optional. Each backend is a little different.

The reason I asked was that I didn't connect as the dbo, so I didn't understand why "dbo." should work. I didn't find "dbo." in any doc, so I'm delighted to have the answer from you and John. (That doesn't mean it isn't there somewhere!) I just wonder how you discovered it.