How a fitness tracking app models its data: activities with compressed sensor streams instead of one row per second, segments and segment efforts with materialised leaderboards, personal records, kudos and comments, clubs, gear mileage and training load.
Outpatient scheduling in MySQL: recurring availability templates that generate slots, appointments that consume exactly one slot, waitlists that backfill cancellations, two-way reminders, referrals, and a dated no-show policy.
The core of an electronic health record: patients and providers, appointments versus encounters, coded conditions and observations, prescriptions against a drug catalogue, allergies and insurance coverage over time.
Payer-side claims processing in SQL Server: plans with benefit rules, policies covering members and dependents, provider network tiers, claims with service lines, per-line adjudication, coded denials, appeals, explanations of benefits and remittance to providers.
How a dispensing pharmacy models its data: a drug catalogue by strength and form, stock held as batches with expiry dates picked first-expired-first-out, dispense events, interaction and allergy checks, insurance claims and a controlled-drugs register.