Wed, Jul 16, 11:17 PM

91 Datamergency

It's time for a new noun in the IT world, and that noun is "datamergency." Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural data·mer·gen·cies Usage: often attributive Date: circa 2008 1 : an unexpected corruption or loss of data which consumes the DBA's mental resources at an hour or attention span previously unanticipated The last time I coined a term, it was "quasinonymous." I'm willing to swear on a stack of Pasta that I posted a blog entry about it, because I remember being so dumbfounded that there were no Google results for the term at the time that I wanted to lay claim to inventing it. There are only 3 results now, and the other two are clearly dated after the first juncture at which I used "quasinonymous" in casual blogging, so I'm fairly confident that I was the first to put it to text. Presumably I deleted the blog entry that introduced the term due to contents I'd written in a drunken stupor and didn't want to have out there. In any case, it no longer exists. Consider this my official claim to the word "quasinonymous" as well, should it ever make it into common language; now that I've seen it at two independent sources, I ought to submit it to the Jargon File. "Datamergency" / "datamergencies" shall remain hereby created for the duration, though, as I've put nothing in this post to warrant later deletion. -- With thanks to Merriam Webster