Twas 2 days before Xmas & all through the office,

not a creature was stirring not even old Maurice.

With merriment going on outside of his window

There sat a bearded DBA without much to do

No changes can be made through the holiday season

We’re on skeleton support, which is a good reason

Ensure you are making the most of your time

You mustn’t be wasting the company dime

The backups are checked, there isn’t an issue

So documentation writing should ensue

Instead he decided to procrastinate

And so, this little ditty he proceeded to create

Looking back over last year he did ruminate

About all the progress he had made, it was great

So much had been learned, so many improvements

Derived using content from fine ladies and gents

Impossible to estimate how much it would cost

Or calculate the amount of revenue lost

For all that he would have been unable to do

Or the times that he knew how to get out of a stew

But also the friends old, new and the rest

The talking and dining and drinking and jest

I am lucky to be a part of the SQL Family

So thank you one and all, with love from me