

You can view it on MSDN at You can also download the "AdventureWorks OLTP Database Diagram" from. Books Online is available in most editions of Visual Studio 2005. To learn more about using the AdventureWorks sample database, you can search for "AdventureWorks Sample OLTP Database" in SQL Server 2005 Books Online. If you already have a previous version of AdventureWorks, you should install the most recent version so that the queries in other ReportViewer walkthroughs work as expected. The version of AdventureWorks that is distributed with SQL Server 2005 is different from earlier versions AdventureWorks. You can use the instructions provided in this walkthrough to download, install, and configure a connection to the AdventureWorks database. AdventureWorks is not automatically installed with SQL Server or SQL Server Express, but can be downloaded from a Microsoft Web site.
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This walkthrough shows how to install the AdventureWorks sample database for SQL Server 2005, which is a prerequisite for other walkthroughs provided in the ReportViewer documentation. Walkthrough: Installing the AdventureWorks Database Just in case the page disappears, copying here. Just had to use regular SQL database, not sqlexpress, but that was easy to find by refreshing the database list. It was hard to track down a useful reference for installing the AdventureWorks database - this one worked (almost).
