Owner Qualifier

 

It is obligatory to specify the owner of a table in a table qualifier if there is another table with the same name within the same database. In an ANSI-compliant database you must specify the owner of all the tables which you do not own, even if they have unique names. If you use an ANSI-compliant database as your current database, an error will occur if you try to reference a not ANSI-compliant database as a remote database.

 

You are free to include the owner of a table in a not ANSI-compliant database which has a unique identifier; however, if the owner qualifier is incorrect then the 4GL will produce an error.