I think you hit the nail on the head. When a schema is designed in a scalable and normalized way - the extension to handle new requirements becomes a natural...

1. Local PC development environment (one per developer)

2. Shared development environment on server (that each developer merges into)

3. Staging environment

4. Testing environment

5. Production environment

6. Sales support environment (unique, sales and...

Hi Phil, Sean,

Thanks for the thoughtful editorial and comments. It was very timely. At my company, our software developers have historically done all the front end coding as well as...

Hi guys,

The organization HL7.Org (Health Level 7) has recommended standards for database designs and inter-app communications for electronic medical and health records,

patient admitting systems, etc. Its complicated but has a...