can you please tell me what is this

bmf.dbo.activities.activity_desc

is it a table or view or proceduer or function etc, what ever it may be i have some doubt here

if you answer the above questions clearly, you will able to analyze the problem

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it seems are you try to use a table name

bmf.dbo.activity_desc

Not sure what you want to do there?

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