Database Hieroglyphics (When Nobody Can Read Your Schema)

Walking into a data warehouse and seeing table names like "cst_prf_x_loc_dim" is like reading ancient hieroglyphics without a Rosetta Stone. Nobody knows what it means. New analysts spend weeks deciphering the cryptic abbreviations. "sls_txn_f47"? Is that sales transactions fact table 47? Or sales tax new framework 47? Who knows? The team that built it left years ago. Now you're stuck with a metadata mess that requires a 200-page glossary just to understand what data you have. It's expensive, slow, and dumb.