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What is the specification for updates to LastSchemaUpdate on Cube(s)?

I'm looking at a few of our cloud and v12 models and for Production and Development near enough if not every cube has an update in the past week or two?

As the name suggests it does not include updates to data but it supposedly build of the date-time the last update was made to the cube itself (typically a change to the Rules), the date-time the last update was made to any of the dimension and the last user-group reassignment that has happened as this can have effect on the security applied and as such what is visible to the user. A change to a dimension not only includes not only changes to the dimension itself (read: add/remove/managed elements) but also includes any element security updates as well as changes to attributes associated to the dimension.

FYI Depending on what type of change you are after you might or might not want to use this property to be honest (it's IMHO a left over from the OLE-DB for OLAP days/specification), in v12, if you are interesting in knowing if something is changed, etags are the way forward to look at. 

What is the specification for updates to LastSchemaUpdate on Cube(s)?

I'm looking at a few of our cloud and v12 models and for Production and Development near enough if not every cube has an update in the past week or two?

Thanks Hubert,

So the suggestion is that the etag hash value will maintain until such a point where the Cube is rebuilt? Reading up on etag's and this relates to data concurrency and maintaining data integrity. 

I was loosely looking to identify the last time a DimensionStorageOrder change was made but my guess would be that the etag only changes when the cube is destroyed and rebuilt.

As the name suggests it does not include updates to data but it supposedly build of the date-time the last update was made to the cube itself (typically a change to the Rules), the date-time the last update was made to any of the dimension and the last user-group reassignment that has happened as this can have effect on the security applied and as such what is visible to the user. A change to a dimension not only includes not only changes to the dimension itself (read: add/remove/managed elements) but also includes any element security updates as well as changes to attributes associated to the dimension.

FYI Depending on what type of change you are after you might or might not want to use this property to be honest (it's IMHO a left over from the OLE-DB for OLAP days/specification), in v12, if you are interesting in knowing if something is changed, etags are the way forward to look at. 

What is the specification for updates to LastSchemaUpdate on Cube(s)?

I'm looking at a few of our cloud and v12 models and for Production and Development near enough if not every cube has an update in the past week or two?