Update DIM data in Fact Table

All -
I have a TSR dimension data (1 of 12 dimensional attributes) in our forecast fact table which gets updated monthly in our source system and we have to reflect this in our BPC system. What is the best method of updating this data in BPC?
1. Can I update the TSR directly in the forecast fact table and reprocess the application to reflect this in the cube?
2. Do I have to negate that entire fact table row with the old TSR and insert a new row with the new TSR and process the cube?
3. Any other method?
Thanks for your help.

You need to explain your requirement a bit more. Why you want to add type or rejection reason in fact table.
In general you should avoid adding textual data in fact.
Fact tables are only supposed to store keys and measures. It can hold textual data in case of degenerate dimension ( i.e if the number of records are same in dimension as well as fact ).
Type or Rejection reason are going to have much less records. You can create a new dimension for them having probably 20 or 30 records.
Disadvantages of adding textual data in fact is, once the fact has millions of records the fact table updates are going to take huge time and also your reports will take long time.
If you have a rejection reason dimension with some 20 records, you can use rejection reason in prompts.
But if the same rejection reason is coming from fact table your prompts performance is going to be very slow since it has to fetch 20 distinct records from millions of records.
Consider these before adding textual data in facts.
Thanks
Edited by: Maqsood Hussain on Dec 5, 2012 9:40 PM

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