The Profound
This week saw the arrival of a new member of our family. My wife and I are now the proud parents of a baby girl.
The Geek
A long time ago I was a hospital orderly at the old Traverse City Osteopathic Hospital, and the nurse midwife who delivered our baby was a nurse at the same hospital. During a calm moment after the delivery we started going to memory lane talking our late lamented “Osteo.” I started remembering how with some patients we documented I & O, or ins and outs. The “I” tracked food the patient ate. The “O” tracked, well, output (insert scatalogical joke here). This data was used by the nurses and physicians as a diagnostic metric for assessing the patient’s condition. Now more more than fifteen years later as a DBA, I document I/O, or Input and Output as a diagnostic metric for assessing the condition and performance of a SQL Server instance.
