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fictional tokens used throughout Microsoft documentation to serve as place-holder substitutions for samples, examples, and case-study conventions.

Contents 1 Companies 1.1 Contoso 1.2 Northwind Traders 1.3 LitWare 1.4 Woodgrove Bank 1.5 Adventure Works 2 Databases 2.1 Pubs 2.2 Northwind 2.3 AdventureWorks

[edit] Companies

[edit] Contoso

[edit] Northwind Traders

A fictional bike parts trading company.

[edit] LitWare

[edit] Woodgrove Bank

A fictitious company that is based predominantly on the business/service solutions (Microsoft business solutions (esp. Microsoft CRM offerings.))

[edit] Adventure Works

A fictional bicycle parts company

[edit] Databases

Sample databases used throughout virtually all data access samples. They can be downloaded from Microsoft Downloads

[edit] Pubs

A sample database of a book/publishing repository that is used in Microsoft Access and earlier versions of Microsoft SQL Server representing a typical relational entity/relationship model. Models a book publishing company.

[edit] Northwind

A sample database released to demonstrate some of the more advanced features of Microsoft's later database offerings and part of the Northwind Traders solutions.

[edit] AdventureWorks

Used for advanced data-warehouseing Template:Microsoft SQL Server samples in the Adventure Works solutions. Business Analysis Services