Ausually quiet and withdrawn young woman became verbally abusive to her supervisor and warned him that if she were not promoted to a job commensurate with her outstanding abilities, she was going to ‘‘come back with a gun.’’ A few weeks earlier, she had had a brief consultation with a psychiatrist, who diagnosed her as having a major depressive disorder and prescribed antidepressant medication....

The core challenges associated with enterprise OLAP are how to structure the database and how to build a decision support architecture that allows for complex analysis and qualification. The primary components of an OLAP system – the database and the analysis engine – must be capable of handling large amounts of data in varying structures. Warehouses will continue to grow and contain data that ...