I appreciate the humour in this. This is currently my situation in life. Old businesses are horrible when it comes to managing data.
If it wasn't set up for it in the design or a bit further modified later on after realizing how rediculous it may be to change anything then it has failed beyond miserably.
This is the real reason behind the crazy huge amount of data formats there are: xml, obj dump, json etc
And people always think lets fix it by adding a new one!! In general xml and json are ones that made sense and the ones we keep continuing to make aren't really improving on much.
If it wasn't set up for it in the design or a bit further modified later on after realizing how rediculous it may be to change anything then it has failed beyond miserably.
This is the real reason behind the crazy huge amount of data formats there are: xml, obj dump, json etc
And people always think lets fix it by adding a new one!! In general xml and json are ones that made sense and the ones we keep continuing to make aren't really improving on much.