Restoring AdventureWorks2017 and AdventureWorksDW2017 Databases Restoring the AdventureWorks sample databases In this post we would see the steps to download/Update AdventureWorks sample databases, and steps for restoring database on our SQL Server. search "download adventureworks database" in google and click on the first link (docs.microsoft.com) As we click, the following page comes up We will find three types of files : OLTP data is for most typical online transaction processing workloads. Data Warehouse (DW) data is for data warehousing workloads. Lightweight (LT) data is a lightweight and pared down version of the OLTP sample. We would download OLTP and also DW AdventureWorks2017.bak AdventureWorksDW2017.bak Now we will open the SSMS and restore the database that we have downloaded. As we can see, we have different databases but not AdventureWorks. Right on databases and Restore Database A dialog box pops up as below... Click on the device and ...