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Install a sample database

Install a sample database

- Learning about SQL Server is often easier when you have lots of data to peruse or can dig into an existing database to see how it was put together. Microsoft provides an example database that's useful to have on hand for experimentation or to explore topics in database development. Let me show you how you can add it to your SQL Server instance. The process starts at Microsoft's SQL Server Samples GitHub page at this URL. Here, you'll find the Wide World Importers sample database that's frequently used in Microsoft's own example documentation. On this page, you'll just scroll down until you find the Wide World Importers-Full.bak file. This is a database backup that we can restore on our own instance of SQL Server. I'll go ahead and click the link to download the file to my system. Once that's done, we need to move this file into a specific location on our hard drive. I'll go ahead and close my web browser and…

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