The dbo. prefix in database object names, can I ignore it?

Question

I am looking for a performant default policy for dealing with the .dbo prefix.

I realize that the dbo. prefix is more than syntactic noise, however I got through the pa

Answer 1

Most of the time you can ignore it. Sometimes you will have to type it. Sometimes when you have to type it you can just type an extra '.':

SELECT * FROM [LinkedServer].[Database]..[Table]

You'll need to start watching for it if you start using extra schemas a lot more, where you might have two schemas in the same database that both have tables with the same name.