Your org is growing, and so is the data. Revenue, programs, engagement metrics. It all adds up until one day your jobs start timing out and hit governor limits. How will you gain insight from your data when your trusted declarative tools just can’t keep up with ever-larger data volumes? This session is a real-world admin story about hitting the limits of the platform and finding a way through. We will walk through the data challenges we faced, where our assumptions did not hold, and the roadblocks that forced us to rethink our conventional Salesforce admin approach. You will hear about the tools and techniques that we used, including VSCode and some Python scripts, and how skilling up beyond conventional admin work made the difference, with examples of how we were able to understand trends even when dealing with millions of records. We will put it all into a higher-level practical framework for handling high data volumes. If you’re starting to feel the strain of growing data, or just want to get ahead of it, think early about scale and invest in building skills beyond the traditional toolkit. By both learning and doing, you, the admin, can rise to the challenge of high data volumes.