This approach would be useful if the data were not stored relationally but instead lumped together into fairly large records as might be the case in a data warehouse.
:CONNECT DATA1
:DATA
:VARNAME varname
:TIME #1980
:VALUE value_at_1980
:SELECT DATA_VALS
:VARNAME varname
:TIME #1990
:VALUE value_at_1990
:SELECT DATA_VALS
:VARNAME varname
:TIME #2000
:VALUE value_at_2000
:SELECT DATA_VALS
