It really wasn't very complicated... basically just some queries to search a database and a front-end to display results. I still don't know how the preceding

It really wasn't very complicated... basically just some queries to search a database and a front-end to display results. I still don't know how the preceding mess got to the point of being such a baroque cobbled-together monstrosity, but it was enough copy-pasta to keep an Olive Garden supplied for a year, and a raft of incomprehensible stored procedures that did SELECT * FROM table WHERE xyz in bizarrely complicated ways involving multiple casts and nested temp results.