Demo Data (Northwind)

To support evaluation of NQRust Analytics before connecting your own database, the installer includes a Northwind demo database — the classic trading-company dataset. It is a small, realistic schema you can query immediately to learn how asking, modeling, and charts work.

What Northwind contains

Northwind models a sample wholesale business, with related tables such as:

• Customers and Orders (with order line items)
• Products, Categories, and Suppliers
• Employees and Shippers

This mix of entities and relationships is sufficient to practice realistic questions such as "top products by revenue" or "orders per customer this year."

Before you begin

Install and start NQRust Analytics with the Installation guide, then open the Analytics UI at http://<server-host>:3000 (using your server's IP address or hostname). The Northwind database runs alongside the app as the bundled northwind-db service.

Connect to the demo database

Add a PostgreSQL data source

On the setup screen, select PostgreSQL and enter the bundled Northwind connection details:

Field	Value
Display name	northwind_demo
Host	northwind-db
Port	5435
Username	demo
Password	demo123
Database name	northwind
Use SSL	Off

Select Next. For more about each field, see Connect PostgreSQL.

The PostgreSQL form filled in for the bundled northwind-db service

Select tables

Select the Northwind tables you want to import. Each table you select becomes a data model.

Selecting the tables to import as data models

Define relationships

Confirm how the Northwind tables relate to one another. NQRust Analytics suggests relationships from existing primary and foreign keys; you can adjust them or skip this step for now.

Defining relationships between the imported tables

Start exploring

Once the project is ready, ask questions on the Home page and inspect tables and relationships on the Modeling page.

Asking a question about the connected data on the Home page

Verify the setup

Confirm the following:

• the project opens successfully
• you can ask a question from the Home page
• you can see tables and relationships on the Modeling page

Next steps