Re: OT: publicly available databases?

andrewgould(at)yahoo(dot)com (Andrew Gould) writes:
> I just finished migrating US county level census data
> into a PostgreSQL database; and thought I'd save
> others the trouble of doing the same. (I've been
> laid-off and am trying to stay busy.) The gzipped,
> dump file is approximately 9.5MB.
>
> Is there a place online where people share data? I
> thought about offering it to techdocs or pgfoundry;
> but it's neither documentation, nor an application, so
> I didn't think it would be appropriate.
>
> If there is no such repository; but you would like
> more information, please contact me off-list.

There is a relevant project at pgFoundry:
<http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbsamples/>

Having interesting databases of interesting size is definitely a
useful thing. Good for plenty of purposes.

BTW, the MySQL folk created a sample database called Sakila
<http://www.openwin.org/mike/index.php/archives/2006/04/sakila-08/>,
loosely based on the Dell DVD application. They licensed under BSDL
specifically to allow it to be widely used for samples in books and
magazine articles and such...

Robert Treat has done a PostgreSQL port, which is at pgFoundry, part
of that project, called Pagila.
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