Hi Jody,
Actually they appear to be correct. But what I had discovered is I had created a series of calculated measures that the Microstrategy developer was ignoring and essentially recreating the same formulas on the Microstrategy side. So when I discovered he was doing these calculations and SUMMING them I asked him to use my calculated measures instead and we did not get any errors but we started getting an error on another date formatting function in the group by. So I began to create a calculated column for that as well when we discovered that somehow after re-activating the view several times his original code just magically began to work again. So we suspect something strange was happening in the code generation when the view is activated. So to summarize, we fixed the problem by creating a new calculated column for date and rolled into production. The microstrategy query is completely ignoring this new column yet everything magically is working again. I'm completely baffled by this mystery and luckily I have a copy of the original view that I'm asking SAP to look into so we can understand what happened.
Thanks for your response. Judging by the lack of responses I could tell it was definitely a strange issue that perhaps nobody has seen before.
-Patrick