Demonstration Databases

The DB-Access utility, which is provided with your Informix database server products, includes one or more of the following demonstration databases:

• The stores_demo database illustrates a relational schema with information about a fictitious wholesale sporting-goods distributor. Many examples in IBM Informix manuals are based on the stores_demo database.
• The sales_demo database illustrates a dimensional schema for data-warehousing applications. For conceptual information about dimensional data modeling, see the IBM Informix: Database Design and Implementation Guide.

For information about how to create and populate the demonstration databases, see the IBM Informix: DB-Access User's Guide. For descriptions of the databases and their contents, see the IBM Informix: Guide to SQL Reference.

The scripts that you use to install the demonstration databases reside in the $INFORMIXDIR/bin directory.