Yes, because there will be others who use table prefixes and that is where you will need it. I found out the hard way about this.
Just remember for future reference, that if it is only 1 table with no joins then you don't need the table AS table. Only if the query has more than one table in it is when you will need it. And all the tables in a query like that have to have the table AS table in it. It is the table prefixes that cause the problem with that.