Chinook Sample Database 1.3 Released

The Chinook Database is a sample database available for multiple database systems. It can be created by running a single SQL script. Chinook database is an alternative to the Northwind database, being ideal for demos and testing ORM tools targeting single and multiple database servers.


The Chinook Database represents a media store, including tables for artists, albums, media tracks, invoices and customers. The media information was generated from my iTunes library file, but anyone can download its source code and use their own iTunes library information. The sales information is auto-generated for a 4 years period. You can see the Chinook data model here.


This new version includes support for SQLite and EffiProz. EffiProz is a cross-platform embedded database written entirely in C#. Chinook database is available for:

• EffiProz
• MySQL
• Oracle
• SQL Server
• SQL Server Compact
• SQLite

You can download the latest release from here. There are available SQL scripts for each database system and also embedded database files for SQL Server Compact and SQLite.