Users must ensure sensitive data is properly protected in compliance with all VA regulations.

Users must ensure their use of this technology/standard is consistent with VA policies and standards, including, but not limited to, VA Handbooks 61 VA Directives 6004, 6513, and 6517 and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards, including Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS). For more information on the use of cloud services and cloud-based products within VA, including VA private clouds, please see the Enterprise Cloud Solutions Office (ECSO) Portal at: Cloud services provided by the VAEC, which are listed in the VAEC Service Catalog, and those controlled and managed by an external Cloud Service Provider (i.e. This includes technologies deployed as software installations on VMs within VA-controlled cloud environments (e.g. The TRM decisions in this entry only apply to technologies and versions owned, operated, managed, patched, and version-controlled by VA. Additionally, this technology supports several cloud database servers such as Oracle Database as a Service and PostgreSQL database running on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). This technology has the ability to pull data from multiple VA-supported databases including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2. This technology is used to construct logical and physical data models, compare and synchronize models, generate complex Structured Query Language/Data Definition Language (SQL/DDL), create and modify scripts, and reverse and forward engineer databases and data warehouse systems. Tool for Oracle Application Developers (TOAD) Data Modeler is a database design application that deploys changes to data structures across different platforms. More information on the proper use of the TRM can be found on the

Technologies must be operated and maintained in accordance with Federal and Department security and

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