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Northwind Sample Database
The Northwind database is a sample database that was originally created by Microsoft and used as the basis for their tutorials in a variety of database products for decades. The Northwind database contains the sales data for a fictitious company called “Northwind Traders,” which imports and exports specialty foods from around the world. The Northwind database is an excellent tutorial schema for a small-business ERP, with customers, orders, inventory, purchasing, suppliers, shipping, employees, and single-entry accounting.
The Northwind database has since been ported to a variety of non-Microsoft databases including PostgreSQL. In this post we are going to walk you through how to install the PostgreSQL-compatible version of Northwind onto the YugaByte DB distributed SQL database.
The latest instructions on how to get up and running are on our Quickstart page here:
https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/quick-start/
You can download the Northwind database that is compatible with YugaByte DB from our GitHub repo. Here’s the two files you’ll need:
- northwind_ddl.sql which creates tables and other database objects
- northwind_data.sql which loads the sample data into Northwind
Next run the ysqlsh command to enter the PostgreSQL shell.
$ ./bin/ysqlsh --echo-queries
ysqlsh (11.2)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=#```
## Create the Northwind Database
```CREATE DATABASE northwind;```
Confirm we have the Northwind database by listing out the databases on our cluster.
```postgres=# \l```
Switch to the Northwind database.
```postgres=# \c northwind
You are now connected to database "northwind" as user "postgres".
northwind=# ```
## Build the Northwind Tables and Objects
```northwind=# \i /Users/yugabyte/northwind_ddl.sql```
We can verify that all 14 of our tables have been created by executing:
```northwind=# \d```
## Load Sample Data into Northwind
Next, let’s load our database with sample data.
```northwind=# \i /Users/yugabyte/northwind_data.sql```
Let’s do a simple SELECT to pull data from the customers table to verify we now have some data to play with.
```northwind=# SELECT * FROM customers LIMIT 2;```
## Explore Northwind
The dataset consists of 14 tables and the table relationships are showcased in the entity relationship diagram below:
The dataset contains the following:
* **Suppliers:** Suppliers and vendors of Northwind
* **Customers:** Customers who buy products from Northwind
* **Employees: **Employee details of Northwind traders
* **Products:** Product information
* **Shippers:** The details of the shippers who ship the products from the traders to the end-customers
* **Orders** and **Order_Details:** Sales Order transactions taking place between the customers & the company
That’s it! Using the command line or your favorite PostgreSQL development or administration tool, you are now ready to start exploring the Northwind database and YugaByte DB features.
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