Question

I found the following SQL command:

Dim commandText As String = _
     "UPDATE Sales.Store SET Demographics = @demographics " _
     & "WHERE CustomerID = @ID;"

What is the part that says Sales.Store?

EDIT

So what would be the correct path for my situation?

I’m doing this all in ASP.net inside of MSVS2010 if that helps at all…

Answer 1

• Sales – database or schema name (I would bet for database name because historically in MS SQl schemas used very rare as opposed to Oracle)
• Store – table or view name

In any statement (MS Sql Server) access object definition is

<object> ::=
{ 
    [ server_name . database_name . schema_name . 
    | database_name .[ schema_name ] . 
    | schema_name .
    ]
    table_or_view_name}

For other data base engines it could differ