ADO.NET Step by Step & Northwind

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I'm trying to work my way through this book, but keep having trouble
with the example programs.

The trouble is my version of Northwind seems to have a similar, but
different schema to that used for the examples.

I've been working around this, often by creating data views within my
Northwind database that reflect the schema required by the examples,
and pointing the code samples at these data views. This is a real
hassle though, and a bit of a waste of time to say the least.

Why would Microsoft create more than one different Northwind database
with different schemas?! What a waste of everyone's time!

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the Northwind sample
database as used for this book?

Cheers,
Rob
 
Rob Nelder said:
I'm trying to work my way through this book, but keep having trouble
with the example programs.

The trouble is my version of Northwind seems to have a similar, but
different schema to that used for the examples.

I've been working around this, often by creating data views within my
Northwind database that reflect the schema required by the examples,
and pointing the code samples at these data views. This is a real
hassle though, and a bit of a waste of time to say the least.

Why would Microsoft create more than one different Northwind database
with different schemas?! What a waste of everyone's time!

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the Northwind sample
database as used for this book?

Cheers,
Rob
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Rob,

Not sure if this is relevent for you or not. Northwind was originally an
Access database. I think when SQL Server 7 was released a version was
'upsized' to SQL Server, it had some additional bells and whistles IIRC.

Now, if the book you are reading is relating to Access and you have SQL
Server, or the other way round this could explain the issues you have.

HTH

regards

AT.
 
I think the book is referring to SQL server, but I checked against the version of nwind I've got for Access and that's different again. So there's at least three versions out there.

Anyone got any idea where I can find the version used by this book (ADO.NET Step by Step)?

Cheers,
Rob
 
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