I can encourage you to make a trip to our beautiful Switzerland, book an appointment at the Archives and ask them to show you what kind of work do they have to go through for some watches in order to fetch the information from old books.
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That's a kind of an old-school multi-table SQL query they run manually and sometimes it takes much more than twenty minutes to provide with a satisfying outcome.
The average salary in Switzerland doesn't help to get the process cheaper. Wait, they could outsource the whole thing to Pakistan (!)
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