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Tony
Feb 9, 2004, 9:01:10 PM2/9/04
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I'm currently teaching a course in web programming where we're using PHP to
connect to MySQL. A book we're using has a sample database in it for use in
practicing, but the database is not well populated with data. This works
fine for some applications, but I'd really like the students to experience
working with a variety of database structures and a larger volume of table
data.
connect to MySQL. A book we're using has a sample database in it for use in
practicing, but the database is not well populated with data. This works
fine for some applications, but I'd really like the students to experience
working with a variety of database structures and a larger volume of table
data.
Can anyone suggest a source for "sample databases"? The format isn't
critical, since I can probably find a filter to help me get it into MySQL.
My searches thus far on the web haven't been very productive.
Tony
Tom Thackrey
Feb 9, 2004, 9:44:47 PM2/9/04
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The government has tons of data. Most of it is carefully collected and
pretty much useless, perfect for learning. :-)
Here's a link to the census data:
ftp://ftp2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/
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Tom Thackrey
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