March 20, 2012 at 2:56 am
L' Eomot Inversé (3/16/2012)
mtillman-921105 (3/16/2012)
Brandie, you are showing your terrific vocabulary. I love that you used the word "felicitations." It made me suspect that the root word was in the Spanish word "feliz." (Commonly heard as "Feliz Navidad" meaning "Merry Christmas.") And apparently it does, from the late Latin felix. Hold on, now I'm starting to sound like the older Greek man on My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding! Enough etymology for today, but I don't remember catching one like this that crosses two languages (although I'm sure they're everywhere).It seems likely that felicitation doesn't come directly from Latin felix (or even from Latin felicis which is the case of felix/felis that would have influenced English if any did) or from the Latin felis (which is probably the variant of felix that Spanish feliz came from) but from the French félicitation; that in turn probably comes from come from the Latin felicitatis, the genetive singular of felicitas which meant fruitfulness or happiness or success or good fortune (and was aslo the name of a minor goddess, the personification of happiness or fruitfullness or good fortune), usually particular good fortune, success, fruitfulness or happiness derived from the good will of the gods). The most obvious Spanish cognate of felicitation is felicitación which also probably comes from felicitatis and means congratulations or good wishes (much the same meaning as felicitation in English). But it's possible that one of both of félicitation and felicitación came from some form of the Latin verb felicitare (to make very happy, to make successful, to make lucky, to make fertile). But in any case, felicitare and felicitas ultimately both come from the same root as felicis (gen of felis and felix, fortunate, fertile, happy, or successful), so felicitation and feliz do have a common root if you go back far enough (early Latin or maybe proto-Latin). We also have the verbs felicitate (English) and felicitar (Spanish) and the nouns felicity (English) and felicidad (Spanish), all from the same collection of Latin words related to felicis.
Pairs of words in English and Spanish that come from the same Latin root are everywhere as you say. So are quintuples in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portugese from the same latin root or even octuples in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Galician, Catalan, Provençal, and Romanian, and probably there are quite a few sets of words in a dozen different languages all from the same latin root (eg add Occitan, Aragonese, Ligurian, and Friulian to the list of 8 above).
Right.
-- Gianluca Sartori
March 20, 2012 at 9:38 am
Hat tip to Brent Ozar for this, but some of you may have missed it. Free MIT courseware anyone? You can even watch lectures for some of these courses.
I think that's great and would take advantage of it except I just bought the developer's edition of SQL Server and need to learn some things to get half as smart as most of you here.
To me, the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics would be a good one. I may buy some of the books on the list for that course.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking
March 20, 2012 at 9:50 am
Or Harvard (http://www.youtube.com/user/Harvard), Yale (http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleCourses, http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleUniversity), University of California, Berkeley (http://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeley), Carnegie Mellon (http://www.youtube.com/user/CarnegieMellonU), etc, etc (http://www.youtube.com/education)
Or, for those with iOS devices, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itunes-u/id490217893?ls=1&mt=8
I have a number of physics courses, a couple of astrophysics, one or two philosophy and a calculus one queued up to watch.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
March 20, 2012 at 10:00 am
Amazing! 'Good to know Gail. Thanks. 😎
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking
March 20, 2012 at 10:35 am
yeah, OCW is cool, universities from all around the world (see image). Great stuff too.
If I only had more free time...
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March 20, 2012 at 2:47 pm
GilaMonster (3/20/2012)
I have a number of physics courses, a couple of astrophysics, one or two philosophy and a calculus one queued up to watch.
My hats off to you for considering higher mathmatics and physics as a 'hobby'. I'm gonna go play ping-pong. 🙂
I'm not sure I, personally, could ever find sitting through college level science classes again an 'enjoyable timekiller'. They're work to me, always were, except for the chemistry stuff (I was a Nuke major at one time). Even though I enjoyed that, I still wouldn't want to do it without intent to use. I'd rather boot up an online game and spend a little time with friends, or just hit the pub and watch the girls go by.
That may have a lot to do with my college experience more than the subjects though. *shrugs*
If you end up on one of the NASA missions, you'll have my support. 🙂
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March 20, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Evil Kraig F (3/20/2012)
GilaMonster (3/20/2012)
I have a number of physics courses, a couple of astrophysics, one or two philosophy and a calculus one queued up to watch.My hats off to you for considering higher mathmatics and physics as a 'hobby'. I'm gonna go play ping-pong. 🙂
I'm not sure I, personally, could ever find sitting through college level science classes again an 'enjoyable timekiller'.
I put them onto Zune/Phone and listen while driving (really makes traffic jams more bearable), shopping or doing anything that's likely to involve a queue. I do have a large amount of SQL stuff to wade through first though.
If you end up on one of the NASA missions, you'll have my support. 🙂
NASA not very likely. ESA now.....
Gail Shaw
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March 20, 2012 at 6:16 pm
jcrawf02 (3/20/2012)
yeah, OCW is cool, universities from all around the world (see image). Great stuff too.If I only had more free time...
main link, not just MIT's version: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/[/url]
And iBerry (www.iBerry.com/cms/) finds some stuff which, for some reason, the OCW search doesn't find (seems odd, as iBerry is an OCW member).
Trouble is there's not enough time in teh world to learn everything.
Tom
March 21, 2012 at 8:39 am
Some people. Let's report a problem trying to save changes from the UI but able to do it with an ALTER TABLE statement and ask if others have seen this behavour. Tell him what he needs to change then have him come back and say but I don't want to do that.
What's the problem then?
March 21, 2012 at 9:32 am
Lynn Pettis (3/21/2012)
Some people. Let's report a problem trying to save changes from the UI but able to do it with an ALTER TABLE statement and ask if others have seen this behavour. Tell him what he needs to change then have him come back and say but I don't want to do that.What's the problem then?
I'll change things quickly in the GUI, but then click the "Script" button to pop the script into a query window.
No reason to make changes in the GUI exclusively for most DDL.
March 21, 2012 at 9:38 am
Brandie Tarvin (3/21/2012)
May I just say that, according to Salary.com, I am not wasting my time by posting to The Thread.http://business.salary.com/why-how-your-employees-are-wasting-time-at-work/[/url]
The link, it is broken. This one maybe: http://business.salary.com/why-how-your-employees-are-wasting-time-at-work/
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
March 21, 2012 at 9:42 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/21/2012)
Lynn Pettis (3/21/2012)
Some people. Let's report a problem trying to save changes from the UI but able to do it with an ALTER TABLE statement and ask if others have seen this behavour. Tell him what he needs to change then have him come back and say but I don't want to do that.What's the problem then?
I'll change things quickly in the GUI, but then click the "Script" button to pop the script into a query wwindow.
No reason to make changes in the GUI exclusively for most DDL.
Me too. The problem I guess I was having is that the OP asked if others have seen this behavour, I showed how it could be changed and it went from there. I guess I am still feeling the affect of the migraine headache yesterday and just a little irritable. Probably should just stay out of the forums for a bit.
March 21, 2012 at 9:49 am
Lynn Pettis (3/21/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/21/2012)
Lynn Pettis (3/21/2012)
Some people. Let's report a problem trying to save changes from the UI but able to do it with an ALTER TABLE statement and ask if others have seen this behavour. Tell him what he needs to change then have him come back and say but I don't want to do that.What's the problem then?
I'll change things quickly in the GUI, but then click the "Script" button to pop the script into a query wwindow.
No reason to make changes in the GUI exclusively for most DDL.
Me too. The problem I guess I was having is that the OP asked if others have seen this behavour, I showed how it could be changed and it went from there. I guess I am still feeling the affect of the migraine headache yesterday and just a little irritable. Probably should just stay out of the forums for a bit.
Have some Chocolate Mousse will make you feel better
March 22, 2012 at 10:27 am
Should I be surprised that people don't seem to comprehend the written word like they should? Perhaps I could have been clearer in what I wrote, but please, take the time to read and if you don't understand something, ask before you go off blindly and do something that may not be in the best interest of your company/customer.
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