i can cartesian up to a billion records without a performance problem
in the world.

with olap i can cartesian as much as you want... billions of physical
records with sub-second response times. without a problem.

Analysis Services 2000 solved every database performance problem the
world has ever known and you guys are still stuck in Excel

AS with SQL 2005 made things about 10 times more powerful; and you guys
aren't on that train.

-Aaron