After compromising the server for the Admissions Office, I called the database administrator. "I’m new in the Admissions Office," I told him. "And I need to look at...," and then I described the parameters of what I was looking for: people who had received undergraduate degrees between 1985 and 1992. He spent a good forty-five minutes on the phone with me, explaining how the records were organized and the commands I needed to extract all the student data for graduates in the years of interest. He was so helpful that he gave me even more than I was asking for.