Webcast: IBM Rational Data Architect for Blueprinting Your Enterprise Infrastructure

IBM is hosting a webcast titled “IBM Rational Data Architect for Blueprinting Your Enterprise Infrastructure” on July 18, 2006.

From the description:

“Learn how Rational Data Architect can help your organization gain a full and thorough understanding of your enterprise information architecture and how to create master blueprint of this information in the form of enterprise compliant data models.

Topics of discussion will include discovering your enterprise information infrastructure, discovering and defining information infrastructure relationships, and creating compliant data models.”

Tutorial: Explore database tools in Rational Data Architect

A new tutorial called “Explore database tools in Rational Data Architect” has been posted on developerWorks.

The tutorial “guides you through the steps to begin database development using Rational Data Architect. You will learn how to create, edit, deploy, and debug SQL stored procedures. This tutorial also covers how to share a project in CVS.

Rational Data Architect

Rational Data Architect has been announced:
IBM® Rational® Data Architect is an enterprise data modeling and integration design tool designed to help data architects design relational and federated databases, understand data assets and their relationships and streamline database projects.

Update: a DeveloperWorks article called “Use Rational Data Architect to integrate data sources”has been published that shows some of the features of Rational Data Architect.

April 11 update: DevX has published the article “Pulling it All Together with IBM Rational Data Architect” that “gives new users a top-level view of RDA and touches on some of its core features with a couple of quick walkthroughs.