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The Northwind Database is a sample database that has been used as the basis for 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 goods 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.