Hey! What about recycling the old Informix sales database demo? I'm sure you can talk them in to making the data "open source". ;-)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jean T. Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:59 PM > To: Derby Discussion > Subject: Re: Test - Database > > Alexander Schatten wrote: > > Maybe someone has an idea: as I am in the education and reseach field, I > > often need test-data to demonstrate specific things like O/R mapping, ER > > tools, ... > > > > Or I want to add some examples for an article and stuff. It is typically > > quite difficult to get test-databases for such a purpose. I obviously do > > not want to put some "real"/operational data from one of my projects > > into some example for download. on the other hand, it is some work to > > get a serious amount of data that is not complete nonsense. > > > > Has someone an idea, if I can find such test-data for Derby? I actually > > need it for introductionary material and articles. > > The upcoming Derby 10.2 bin release includes a "toursdb" demo database > that might help. You can download a snapshot from here: > > http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/TenTwoRelease > > Be sure to download one of db-derby-10.2.1.1-bin distributions (the demo > database isn't included in the lib distribution). After extracting the > distribution, toursdb is in db-derby-10.2.1.1-bin/demo/databases . > > regards, > > -jean
