Official Microsoft databases

AdventureWorks

Sample SQL Server database published by Microsoft to show how to design a database from SQL Server 2008. Adventure Works Cycles is a fictitious, multinational manufacturing company.

• AdventureWorks homepage (microsoft.com)
• AdventureWorks homepage (GitHub)
• AdventureWorks download
• AdventureWorks documentation

AdventureWorksDW

Data warehouse equivalent of AdventureWorks.

• AdventureWorksDW homepage (GitHub)
• AdventureWorksDW download

WideWorldImporters

WideWorldImporters is a sample for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database, that replaced AdventureWorks from SQL Server 2016. WideWorldImporters is a wholesale company.

• WideWorldImporters homepage (GitHub)
• WideWorldImporters download

WideWorldImportersDW

Data warehouse equivalent of WideWorldImporters.

• WideWorldImportersDW homepage (GitHub)
• WideWorldImportersDW download

ContosoRetailDW

A fictitious retail demo dataset used for presenting Microsoft Business Intelligence products.

• ContosoRetailDW download

Northwind

Sample Microsoft database for SQL Server 2000 to 2005. Northwind is a fictitious company that imports and exports food globally.

• Northwind homepage

Pubs

Sample Microsoft database for SQL Server 2000 to 2005. PUBS database includes a fictional set of information about publishers, authors, titles and the sales of their associated books.

• Pubs download

Other databases

StackOverflow

Anonymized dump of all user-contributed content on the Stack Exchange network.

• Stack Exchange network DB download

SportDB

Open database schema for sports information.

• SportDB homepage
• SportDB reference
• SportDB download

Chinook

The Chinook data model represents a digital media store.

• Chinook homepage
• Chinook download