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The system transactional,
With tables quite rational
Works well to record.
But what for reporting needs?
A warehouse for data feeds,
Where they can be stored.

If you have an Enterprise
To Manage Performance-wise,
You need something smart.
Your data you must Extract,
Transform, and Load into: Fact,
Dimension to start.

You are not perfect,
Far from it!
But I'm not perfect, either.
I find perfection intimidating,
Or worse, boring.

You're not perfect,
But that's why I like you:
You're flawed enough to be interesting
But not enough to prevent you from being a productive member of society.

This dark night
I find it hard to concentrate.
My mind is on many things:
The joy of a beautiful spring evening,
The difficulty of caring for an aging dog,
The stress and accomplishment of work,
The delight of laughing with an attractive man,
The grief upon my mother's recent death.

Miss you, too.

But I cannot tell you that
Since I'm not speaking to you.
It's not because I'm angry with you
(Perhaps I should be),
Not because I'm too busy
(Though that's the excuse I've used).
It's not because I don't care,
In truth, it is because I do.