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I have a requirement to show when a resource submitted/modified each of the items in their time sheet I found that we can get in this information by going directly to the publishing table MSP_Assignment_Transactions but it is well documented that accessing
the publishing tables directly is not supported by Microsoft.
What other options are there to get the data from this table or for that matter any table other than the reporting tables that Microsoft would support?
Just as an FYI we do not want to write to them we just want to select the data we need.

Even though accessing published DB is not supported for several reason, depending upon query you may start experiencing performance problems, if a later CU/SP alters the DB schema your reports may fail, but personally haven't experienced it in long
time,
Also in my personal experience if you are not acquiring lock on the table while querying, it doesn't harms but then there are downside of it
However as an alternate as Rod suggested use PSI to get the data and stage it in staging table or something and then use it for reporting or you can replicate the publish DB and use that for reporting purpose
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