From: Octavian Rasnita Date: September 28 2005 8:48pm Subject: Re: Table names with periods List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/189730 Message-Id: <00bc01c5c46e$486f2f60$c2a2b451@ted> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chance Ellis" Point taken and yes the manual was reviewed. However, I thought in the past that I had seen someone post a method in which table names could be created with special characters. Can't you use a single table instead of more tables? Or each table has different columns? If all the tables have the same fields, I think you could add a new column named "ip", and in each of your queries you can add... and ip='...'. Teddy