Perhaps it is a bug, I'm still not sure. Just added some additional information to original post, but appears to limit to 50 chars in the table name, also not...

Agreed. The application appears to recreate those objects in the event of their non-existence. Therefore, since I apparently have to manually recreate the truncated versions of the tables in order...

So, a bit more information. The table name actually contains a sort of GUID at then end to ensure uniqueness. I thought maybe length was an issue, but I'm well...

Hi, I updated the instance from CU17 to CU18 with no change in behavior. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I understand it's not a good practice. The 3rd party product is attempting to create this table running under a service account and in troubleshooting...