Detailed like CTEs and ranking functions?

“It’s just SQL Server with more zeros, right?” Marcus asked, loading the media.

Their flagship product—a logistics tracker for intermodal freight—was running on SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition. The database had grown to 350GB. Every night, the indexing job took four hours. Every morning, the dispatchers in Chicago and Rotterdam would sit staring at spinning hourglasses while containers piled up at ports.