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Is Microsoft’s Northwind the Lorem Ipsum of databases?

Posted: February 10th, 2004 | 1 Comment »

While looking for good test data for my code, online medications a moment’s idle musing confirmed (with scott/tiger coming up on the outside)

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1 Milo said at 10:19 am on October 19th, 2004:
Northwind is an example of real world data. Although in experience, its a little too good. It has descreet refential/indexing and data quality is about 80%. Could make an interesting study.
When I hear people slagging the data, they clearly don’t understand why it’s there.

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