How to reference a sql server with a backslash (\) in its name?

Question

Givens:

• One SQL Server is named: DevServerA
• Another is named: DevServerB\\2K5

Problem:

Answer 1

On SQL SERVER 2005, the following happened: Entry of:

SELECT TOP 1 *   
FROM [DevServerB\2K5].master.sys.tables 

Is changed to

SELECT TOP 1 *   
FROM DevServerB\2K5.master.sys.tables 

by SQL Server system and you still get the error message: Incorrect syntax near '.'.

I tried it with a linked server named in two different ways: '[DevServerB\2K5]' and 'DevServerB\2K5'

Does anybody have any other ideas?

Thank you Alan Robertson

CORRECTION added the next day: I was wrong, partially. When one tries to create a view using a SQL statement like:

SELECT  *
FROM [DevServerB\2K5].TestDB.dbo.tables 

then the [ and ] are removed and one cannot save the view, BUT if one just writes a query using the same SQL string then it works correctly.

I was also able to execute a SQL statement like:

INSERT INTO [DevServerB\2K5].TestDB.dbo.tables ( ... ) ...

I can do what I wanted, but it would have been much better if I could have saved a view and used a view that would then be used for SELECT, INSERT and UPDATE of the table in the [DevServerB\2K5].TestDB database from the original server where I tried and failed to create a view because of the '\' .

-ASR-