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Fully qualified table name for relational databases

Q: What is fully qualified table name pattern? Ans: A fully qualified table name is an unambiguous name that specifies a table in a database. It is advisable to use the fully qualified name of a table so that there are less chances of errors. Various databases have different patterns of fully qualified table names. Below given are the details of various databases and their fully qualified table name patterns Database Fully qualified table Pattern Oracle SCHEMA.TABLE DB2 CATALOG.TABLE MySQL SCHEMA.TABLE Microsoft SQL Server [CATALOG]..[TABLE] PostGre SQL "SCHEMA"."TABLE"