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From SQL Server Magazine]
Even before SQL Server 2005, Microsoft was gradually pulling sample databases it used to include with SQL Server and posting them to its CodePlex open-source project website instead, at www.codeplex.com. The site is loaded with interesting and useful SQL Server samples as well as tools and utilities.
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