SQL 2012 :: Using Partitioned Views In Order To Manage Table Sizes

I have a few databases that are using Partitioned Views in order to manage the table sizes and they all work well for our purposes. Recently I noticed a table that had grown to 400+ million rows and want to partition it as well, so I went about creating new base tables based on the initial table's structure, just adding a column to both table and primary key to be able to build a Partitioned View on them.The first time around, on a test system, everything worked flawlessly but when I put the same structure in place on the production system I get the dreaded "UNION ALL view 'DBName.dbo.RptReportData' is not updatable because the primary key of table '[DBName].[dbo].[RptReportData_201405]' is not included in the union result. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 4444)" error.

I have searched high and low and everything I see points to a few directives in order for a UNION ALL view to be updatable:

- Need a partitioning column that is part of the primary key
- Need a CHECK constraint that make the base tables exclusive, i.e. data cannot belong to more than one table
- Cannot have IDENTITY or calculated columns in the base tables
- The INSERT statement needs to specify all columns with actual values, i.e. not DEFAULT

Well, according to me, my structure fulfills these conditions but the INSERT fails anyway. CREATE scripts below scripted from SQL Server. I only modified them to be on a single row - it is easier to verify that they are identical in a text editor that way.

SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
SET ANSI_PADDING ON
GO

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