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 Referencing MDX Query results in SQL Server

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rip.murdock
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Posted - 2005-08-31 : 21:00:32
I’ve utilized Openrowset with Select…Into to dump the results of an MDX queries into a new table created on the fly. I’ve attempted to reference the results using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table to build a dynamic T-SQL screen, T-SQL doesn’t recognize the column names that are automatically assigned to these columns because they contain “.” The first four column names are [Date].[Year].[MEMBER_CAPTION],[Date].[Quarter].[MEMBER_CAPTION],[Date].[Month].[MEMBER_CAPTION],[Date].[Day].[MEMBER_CAPTION]
When selecting the first of these, I get this error message.

The column prefix 'Date.Year' does not match with a table name or alias name used in the query.

If I enclose the column name in brackets, selecting [[Date].[Year].[MEMBER_CAPTION]]
I get this error:

Unclosed quotation mark before the character string 'MEMBER_CAPTION]

I could also select these columns by ordinal position, but I do not believe that is possible in T-SQL.

Any other suggestions?
   

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