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Install a sample database

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Install a sample database

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- [Instructor] Microsoft produces sample databases for a SQL server that are commonly used in training courses and tutorials that you're sure to come across in your journey towards becoming a database administrator. One of the most popular is a database called AdventureWorks, which follows a fictitious bicycle manufacturer. You can download and explore the AdventureWorks database by visiting Microsoft's GitHub repository at this URL. From here, simply go down, and click on the AdventureWorks2017.bak link. This database can be useful to have, since a large number of people have access to it and regularly refer to it in order to explain concepts or illustrate techniques. The link will download a database backup file that will install in Management Studio in just a few minutes. The other sample database that Microsoft supplies is for a company called Wide World Importers. This is a new fictitious company that imports and…

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