> Correctly! an "empty string" is still a string. As it's parsed as an illegal string for the name of a table, IBO obligingly double-quotes it for you, to try to make it legal.
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> AFAIK, the value you really want is Nil. No quotes - Nil in Pascal is kinda like a null in SQL.
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> Helen
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Hi.

As Mason said, you cant set a table name to nil in Delphi. Anyway the
issue is a component property one not an SQL issue, unset string
properties are 'empty string' in Delphi and should not be parsed to a
non empty string ("").

Cheers
Rob