This paper describes analytical concepts that can be applied to a comprehensive database containing information on students, teachers, and schools. The concepts are presented in terms of displays, potential inferences, and possible difficulties. Statistical techniques are mentioned, but not rigorously developed. Focus is on displays that can be produced by some microcomputer graphic programs. Each analysis is discussed in intuitive terms, relying on the common sense of the viewer of the display to guide his or her inferences. Topics covered include accumulating data, roster-based data presentations, desirable database system characteristics, analysis of single variables at one point in time, analysis of a single variable repeatedly measured over time, and analysis of the relationship between two variables. Two figures and seven graphs are presented. (TJH)