The symbol dot (.) plays a major role when you write queries
It is mainly used to speicify the columns for the respective tables when a join is used as you see in the following example

select 
	t1.col1,t1.col2,t2.col3,t2.col4
from
	table1 as t1 inner join table1 as t2 on t1.col1=t2.col1

But sometimes the usage of dot may surprise you
Let us consider the following example

create table #test(i int)
insert into #test(i) select 10
select * from #test

As you see the result is 10
Now see what happens when you use the following queries

select * from .#test
select * from ..#test
select * from ...#test

The result is 10 for all the queries. You may think to get an error when you see the queries

However what happens is
when a single dot is used, by default the current user is considered so it becomes username.tablename
when two dots are used, by default the current database and user are considered so it becomes dbname.username.tablename
when three dots are used, by default the current server, database and user are considered so it becomes servername.dbname.username.tablename

You will get an error if you use more than three dots

Consider another example queries

select * from #test[.]
select * from #test[..]
select * from #test[...]
select * from #test[....]
select * from #test[.....]

All will return the value 10

Here what happens is the dots between square braces become table alias for #test
Now all the following will work correctly

select * from .#test[.]
select * from .#test[..]
select * from .#test[...]
select * from .#test[....]
select * from .#test[.....]
select * from ..#test[.]
select * from ..#test[..]
select * from ..#test[...]
select * from ..#test[....]
select * from ..#test[.....]
select * from ...#test[.]
select * from ...#test[..]
select * from ...#test[...]
select * from ...#test[....]
select * from ...#test[.....]

Consider another example

select 10.35

The result is 10.35 Now see what happens when try this

select 10.test

You must have expected an error incorrect syntax near '.' But it wont throw error and the result is

test
-----
10

So the parser ignores the dot when it is succeeded by non numbers and make it as a alias name
Now execute this and see the error

select 10 .test

The error message is

Msg 258, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Cannot call methods on int.

I think one would have never come across such an error