I was pulling data from SAP through an OData API — every Internal Order from 2020 to today. The response came back with exactly 1000 rows. Not 987, not 1214. A clean, round 1000. Was I happy? No. I got suspicious. In data work, a number that "too perfect" is usually a lie. Real data comes back messy — fractions, odd totals, nothing that lines up so neatly. That 1000 wasn't telling me "here's your data." It was telling me "this is a ceiling." I tried the standard fix: paginate using ODat...