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In order to select tables in a stored procedure, view or trigger in an external database you must use the fully qualified name in the select statement. For example, to select from a table in a separate database on the same SQL Server instance you might write: SELECT AuthorID, Author FROM BooksDb.dbo.PIC_Author You can also select cross-databases by adding the server name: SELECT AuthorID, Author FROM Server2.BooksDb.dbo.PIC_Author Until this morning the SQL Statement above had always worked for me, but this morning using a new server (running SQL2008) I received the following error message: --------------------------- Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio --------------------------- SQL Execution Error. Executed SQL statement: SELECT AuthorID, Author FROM Server2.BooksDb.dbo.PIC_Author Error Source: .Net SqlClient Data Provider Error Message: Could not find server 'Server2' in sys.servers. Verify that the correct server name was specified. If necessary,...