Demonstration Databases

The DB–Access utility, which is provided with your IBM 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.
• For Extended Parallel Server only, 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 Dynamic Server only, the superstores_demo database illustrates an object-relational schema that contains examples of extended data types, data-type inheritance and table inheritance, and user-defined routines.

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 on UNIX platforms and in the %INFORMIXDIR%\bin directory in Windows environments.