big hairy database

:wave: hello fellow VBites :wave:

Does anybody know of a great big hairy industrial strength database ,free to download and mess about with,but not too big and hairy that it wont fit into Access.

It doesn't relly have to be hairy,but it should have loads of tables to practice join's and the like on,and cockup with endless SQL queries.:afrog:

I want to get my teeth into all of this joining up stuff and seeing a big DB might help.

Many thanks form the Land Of Song (Wales)...

Kind Regards
Tommy Gracie

SQL Server Express is free, have you tried it?

I could be wrong, but I think that Tommygracie wants an actual database file, rather than a database system.

If so, I recommend using one the examples that are provided with Access - such as Biblio.mdb

Yah, doesn't MS provide the northwind DB with all their DB software?

It depends which version you are using... older versions had one sample database dedicated to that product, but these days they also seem to have equivalents of the sample databases for the other products.

If you are trying to learn RDBMS things (like joins etc.) then why not use SQL Server Express and download the sample databases from here: http://www.codeplex.com/Release/Proj...ReleaseId=4004 {choose the case insensitive one "CI"}