Moving writeback data in the Fact tables and avoiding problems with changing column names
While writeback functionality in SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 has changed significantly and writeback values are stored in the OLAP cubes, in SSAS 2005 the writeback values are stored in a relational table on the same server with the fact tables. When the writeback functionality is enabled for a partition, a new table is automatically created which bears a prefix of WriteTable. Its structure is fairly simple: it contains a column for each dimension and two audit fields.
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