What does a fully qualified table name consist of?

Imagine you have a big library with lots of bookshelves. Each bookshelf represents a database, and each book on the bookshelf represents a table.

To find a specific book, you need to know both the bookshelf and the book title.

Similarly, in SQL, a fully qualified table name tells the database exactly where to find a table. It's like providing the complete address of a book in the library.

The correct answer is Option D: database name followed by table name. This is because you first specify the database (the bookshelf) and then the table name (the book title).

For example, to access the "students" table in the "school" database, you would use the fully qualified name: school.students.