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On his screen, a chaotic mess of SQL queries and a legacy VB6 application were spitting out error messages like a dying animal. The monthly reports were due at 8:00 AM. The partners needed the quarterly revenue breakdowns, the sales projections, and the inventory liabilities. And Elias had nothing but a crashed application and a corrupted file structure.