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3.
Click Next. You’ll see a Confirm Installation dialog box.
4.
Click Next. The installer installs the files into the 
C:\SQL Server 2000 Sample Databases
folder on your machine (you aren’t given a choice about the installation folder). After the 
installation is complete, you’ll see an Installation Complete dialog box.
5.
Click Close. The Northwind database and its associated script are now loaded on your 
machine.
6.
Open a command prompt in the 
C:\SQL Server 2000 Sample Databases
folder.
7.
Type OSQL -E -i InstNwnd.SQL and press Enter (the command line switches are case sen-
sitive — make sure you type the command correctly). The OSQL utility will start building 
and installing the Northwind database. This process can take a while to complete — get a 
cup of coffee and enjoy. When the process is complete, you see a command prompt with
a bunch of numbers on it and no error message, as shown in Figure 17-16.
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FIgURE 17-16: 
The output from the OSQL utility doesn’t tell you much except if it encountered errors.
The OSQL utility comes with your SQL Server installation. If Windows 
tells you that it can’t find the OSQL utility, make sure the 
\Program Files\
Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn
 folder (or equivalent for your ver-
sion of SQL Server) is part of your path statement. To check the path, type Path
at the command line and press Enter. To add the path to your path statement, 
type something like Path = C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\