Oracle Database Development Life Cycle. Standards are established rules, principles, or measures that are widely used, available, or supplied, and recognized and accepted as having permanent value. These Oracle standards identify steps necessary to implement an Oracle application database at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The standards are intended to compliment the methodology and procedures described in the Roles and Responsibilities document and Oracle reference manuals. These standards must be followed with care and consideration given to database object naming conventions, appropriate database object usage, and required object parameter settings. Any requests for deviation from these standards must be submitted in writing to, reviewed by, and approved by the Central Oracle DBA staff at CMS.