Dickeson--The Analytical Power of OLAP

It's beyond my competence to do more than point a direction. I don't know how my VCR works, but I use it to keep Blockbuster solvent.

OLAP isn't really new, just newly rediscovered and touted. In 1977, I witnessed a demonstration of an MDBMS on a microcomputer system called the Microdata Reality, and I could hardly believe the ease of query and analysis I was observing. It was named the Pick System, after its developer Richard Pick, who pioneered it for the military at about the same time in the late '60s that UNIX was being perfected. Pick Systems are now running in thousands of applications worldwide.