diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_driver.php
index b6cb460..c51edfb 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlite/sqlite_driver.php
@@ -402,11 +402,9 @@
 	 */
 	function _escape_table($table)
 	{
-		if (stristr($table, '.'))
-		{
-			$table = preg_replace("/\./", ".", $table);
-		}
-		
+
+		// other database drivers use this to add backticks, hence this
+		// function is simply going to return the tablename for sqlite		
 		return $table;
 	}