The act of running scripts against a database, most commonly performed in either a SQL or Oracle environment. This includes, but is not limited to, statements pertaining to SELECT, INSERT, ADD, UPDATE and/or DELETE. In order for a procedure to be considered of true databasing nature, said procedures must be manually executed by the designated databasee. Scheduled stored procedures and automated jobs are not, under any circumstances, considered authentic databasing.
DB Admin: "Our records seemingly shifted overnight. None of the rows and columns match up in the audit."
Consultant: "I have sales on line 2. They were databasing without permission!"
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)