Question

I have a table with a space in the name generated by a system.

I am trying to alter the table name to remove the space so that it can be processed by a library the pre-exists.

I am trying:

ALTER TABLE 'My Table'
 RENAME TO 'MyTable';

I have also tried double quotes, no luck.

Any pointers?

Answer 1

[This will not work in MS-Access. Tables cannot be renamed in Access. Not clear if original question applied to MS Access.]

Square brackets:

ALTER TABLE [My Table]
 RENAME TO [MyTable];

Square brackets can’t enclose the entire object “path” so this won’t work:

ALTER TABLE [MyDatabase.dbo.My Table]

but this will

ALTER TABLE [MyDatabase].[dbo].[My Table]