Is Microsoft's Northwind the Lorem Ipsum of databases?
While looking for good test data for my code, a moment's idle musing confirmed (with scott/tiger coming up on the outside)
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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.