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Rational Data Architect skills series, Part 3: Discover schema relationships with Rational Data Architect

Create schema mappings semi-automatically

Torsten Bittner (tbittner@us.ibm.com), Software Engineer, EMC
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Torsten Bittner works as a software engineer in Information Management, IBM Software Group. He carries a diploma degree in computer science from the University of Rostock, Germany. His development responsibilities include the Rational Data Architect mapping editor discovery and the query generation component.

Summary:  You can use IBM® Rational® Data Architect to define data mappings. When working with large schemas, it can be very cumbersome to manually create mappings. Rational Data Architect offers a discovery component to semi-automatically identify potential mappings. This tutorial provides an introduction to the relationship discovery component of Rational Data Architect.

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Date:  19 Dec 2006
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (1541 KB | 38 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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