A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for using a relational database management system to support on-line analytical processing (OLAP) systems. A multi-dimensional database is defined having a set of multi-dimensional data blocks and a set of identifiers comprising selected dimensions of multi-dimensional...http://www.google.fr/patents/US5943668?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US5943668 - Relational emulation of a multi-dimensional database
Relational emulation of a multi-dimensional database
