Question

I have a schema define in my database. Except now everytime I do a sql statement I have to provide the schema …
SELECT * FROM [myschema].table

I set the default schema for my user using management studio and also ran the
ALTER USER myUser WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA [myschema]
and I still get the invalid object ‘table’ when writing a query without the schema (SELECT * FROM table)

Is there a way to write SELECT * FROM table without having to specify the schema name all the time?

It’s on SQL 2005 using SQL Management Studio.

Answer 1

Is the user an SA, if so it will not work, according to the documentation SA users are always defaulted to the dbo schema.

The value of DEFAULT_SCHEMA is ignored
if the user is a member of the
sysadmin fixed server role. All
members of the sysadmin fixed server
role have a default schema of dbo.