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Wide World Importers Sample for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database
Wide World Importers is a comprehensive database sample that both illustrates database design, and illustrates how SQL Server features can be leveraged in an application.
Note that the sample is meant to be representative of a typical database. It does not include every feature of SQL Server. The design of the database follows one common set of standards, but there are many ways one might build a database.
Latest release: wide-world-importers-release
Source code for the sample: wide-world-importers.
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The documentation for the sample is organized as follows:
Overview
Overview of the sample company Wide World Importers, and the workflows addressed by the sample.
Main OLTP Database WideWorldImporters
WideWorldImporters Installation and Configuration
Instructions for the installation and configuration of the core database WideWorldImporters that is used for transaction processing (OLTP - OnLine Transaction Processing) and operational analytics (HTAP - Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing).
WideWorldImporters Database Catalog
Description of the schemas and tables used in the WideWorldImporters database.
WideWorldImporters Use of SQL Server Features and Capabilities
Describes how WideWorldImporters leverages core SQL Server features.
WideWorldImporters Sample Queries
Sample queries for the WideWorldImporters database.
Data Warehousing and Analytics Database WideWorldImportersDW
WideWorldImportersDW Installation and Configuration
Instructions for the installation and configuration of the OLAP database WideWorldImportersDW.
WideWorldImportersDW OLAP Database Catalog
Description of the schemas and tables used in the WideWorldImportersDW database, which is the sample database for data warehousing and analytics processing (OLAP).
WideWorldImporters ETL Workflow
Workflow for the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process that migrates data from the transactional database WideWorldImporters to the data warehouse WideWorldImportersDW.
WideWorldImportersDW Use of SQL Server Features and Capabilities
Describes how the WideWorldImportersDW leverages SQL Server features for analytics processing.
WideWorldImportersDW OLAP Sample Queries
Sample analytics queries leveraging the WideWorldImportersDW database.
Data generation
WideWorldImporters Data Generation
Describes how additional data can be generated in the sample database, for example inserting sales and purchase data up to the current date.