What the heck does ‘ALFKI’ mean?

5 thoughts on “What the heck does ‘ALFKI’ mean?”

1. user November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

   It’s the unique key of “Alfreds Futterkiste”, the first “Customers” table entry in Microsoft’s “Northwind” sample database that ships with SQL Server.

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2. user November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

   It’s a sample customer in Microsoft supplied Northwind database (used for tests)

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3. user November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

   ‘ALFKI’ is the primary identifier of a known Customer record in the Northwind sample Database from Microsoft.

   It is used here and there almost as “foobar” is used as a canonical variable name.

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4. user November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

   Customer key from the Northwind sample database that Microsoft used over the years.

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5. user November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am

   It’s the primary key (CustomerID) of the First Customer entry in the Microsoft Northwind Demo Database

   ALFKI   
   Alfreds Futterkiste 
   Maria Anders    
   Sales Representative    
   Obere Str. 57   Berlin      
   12209   
   Germany 
   030-0074321 
   030-0076545
   

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