Mobile dental programs have special needs including offline data collection, central data availability and public health reporting. Should the primary database fail, one of these standby databases can be activated to become the new primary database". These standby databases apply the transactions to their own copies of the data. For instance, with MySQL replication, "the active primary database ships transactions to one or more standby databases. Relational databases like Oracle and MySQL have mechanisms that can be used to keep the availability (of the database) very high. There are documented benefits to using a relational database when storing and retrieving data: the relational model offers "advantages over the hierarchical and network models through its simpler data representation, superior data independence and easy to use query language". Relational database benefits to dental practice The database schema is published and publicly viewable. Both local preferences and those which apply to every computer in the office are stored in the mySQL database. The database uses the dual licensed MySQL database program. The first open dental customer bought the technical support services on July 22, 2003. The company makes money through its monthly technical support fees, which are required for the first 6 months of use. Being an open source software, any programmer has the freedom to develop and support Open Dental. Open Dental is owned and sponsored by Open Dental Software, Inc., which is incorporated in the State of Oregon in the United States of America.
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The full function version is only available under the commercial license because it includes royalty bearing, licensed materials from the American Dental Association (ADA), the Code on Dental Procedures and Nomenclature (CDT).
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Earlier versions of the software had supported other operating systems, but Linux support has been dropped. Current versions of the software require Microsoft Windows. It is written in the C# programming language compatible with Microsoft .NET Framework and was first released in 2003. Open Dental, previously known as Free Dental, is a dental practice management software licensed under the GNU General Public License.
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