We are using Northwind database as the sample database through all our SQL tutorials. Northwind is a fictitious company that imports and exports foods globally. The Northwind sample database provides you with a good database structure and sales data that help you experiment with SQL statements in each tutorial.
The following illustrates the database diagram of the Northwind database:
Northwind Database Diagram
Database Tables
The following explain each table in the Northwind database:
- Customers – stores customer master data
- Orders – stores transaction sale orders from customers
- OrderDetails – stores line items of sale orders
- Products – stores products master data
- Suppliers – stores suppliers master data
- Shippers – stores shippers master data
- Region – stores region master data
- Territories – store territories master data
- Employees – store employees master data
- EmployeeTerritories – store relationship between employee and territory.
Download Sample Database
- Northwind Sample Database for MySQL (245.76 kB)
- Northwind sample database for MS Access (519.68 kB)