The Northwind database is a classic, 14-table sample dataset modeling a specialty food importer, widely used for training and testing relational database systems like SQL Server. While originally a Microsoft project, scripts for installing Northwind are available across GitHub and community resources for various platforms, including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. For a demonstration of installing the database in SQL Server, watch this YouTube video .
Northwind sample database for MySql, PostgresQL etc. · GitHub northwind db script