All objects have a four part name:

server.database.owner.objectname

If possible, objects should be referred to by owner.objectname;

SELECT * FROM dbo.authors

-Mike

>>>May be Mike will join this thread then, though I guess, I'm being paranoid... :)
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>>I'm here but you already got your answer ;-)
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>>-Mike
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>Thanks. Just was curios, what is in your book, since I don't have it where I'm now.
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>Here is the link, somebody pointed me to http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_syntaxc_9kvn.asp