There is already precedent for issues in this area. Neural nets have been proven to be pretty good at selecting loan candidates, but legally they cannot be used for that...

Thanks for additional suggestions.

We were monitoring wait states and saw no increase at the times of the slowdowns.

Indexing can slow things, but the statements involved were...

Thank you for your input so far. 

Yes I did check for job changes, and in each case it was a different query step that failed (even though this...

Part of it depends on where you are in your career.
As a late career guy, my learning is more guided by what's coming down the pike at the company...

Reminds me of a T-shirt I saw a while back:

"Bad decisions make good stories"

Unfortunately the universe of "unexpected consequences" is virtually infinite.

We learn much more from our failures than our successes ... our successes don't show us things that we didn't already know.

The children point is important. Over the...

When the information is second or third hand, there is no way to know the quality in most cases. You can take three or four political surveys, for example, but...

There are a number of flaws in the starry eyed optimism in that article.

Of course there are the serious privacy threats (as addressed above). Recently Australia has been...