Some databases you can download from this repository: https://rebrand.ly/sample-db
- Data.gov
- Amazon product data (This dataset contains product reviews and metadata from Amazon, including 142.8 million reviews spanning May 1996 - July 2014)
- AdventureWorks Sample Databases and Scripts for SQL Server 2017, 2016, 2014 , 2012
- AdventureWorks for Analysis Services
- AdventureWorks Sample Databases and Scripts for SQL Server 2008 R2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SR1 Sample Databases
- Thinking Big (Adventure) (by Adam Machanic)
- WideWorldImporters Sample Database (Github Microsoft)
- IoT Smart Grid sample - demonstrates how SQL Server 2016 memory optimized databases could be used to ingest a very high input data rate (Github Microsoft)
- In-Memory OLTP (WWI Sales Orders) (Github Microsoft)
- Bigger Fact Table for Wide World Importers (by Koen Verbeeck)
- Contoso Retail Data Warehose (Github)
- How to Download the Stack Overflow Database via BitTorrent 2016-03 (by Brent Ozar)
- Stack Overflow Database version 2016-12-15
- Stackexchange Source files - xml files
- Git repo for SQL Server Reporting Services samples and community projects
- SQLSkills sample databases (also include SAMPLE CORRUPT DATABASES)
- SQLIndexWorkbook Sample Database (by Little Kendra)
- Itzik Ben-Gan Sample Databases (by Itzik Ben-Gan)
- Orders: Open Source Sample Database (by Brent Ozar)
- BabbyNames Database (by Kendra Little)
- SQL Server Sakila DB (by jOQO)