Useful stock SQL datasets?

Question

Does anyone know of any resources that provide good, useful stock datasets? For example, I\'ve downloaded a SQL script that includes all of the U.S. states, cities, and zipcode

Answer 1

Shadowman, better if you say detail list of what you want.

• Blacklisted IP addresses - Ad? Xxx? Fraud?
• Names of colleges/universities - All in the world? Wouldn't it be too much?

Here is an idea how to drop down a list of something - this is how I do that:

For example, I need a list of colleges/universities in California.

1. I google for: colleges california wikipedia. Then open the first found item there;
2. By using mouse I select all the colleges and universities from there to clipboard;
3. Open Excel and paste copied names into the first row+column;

4. In the second cell of the first row write templated script, like:

   ="INSERT INTO Colleges (state, name) VALUES ('CA', '" & RC[-1] & "');"
   

   This should produce something like

   INSERT INTO Colleges (state, name) VALUES ('CA', 'Academy of Art University, San Francisco');
   INSERT INTO Colleges (state, name) VALUES ('CA', 'Allied American University, Laguna Hills (Online)');
   INSERT INTO Colleges (state, name) VALUES ('CA', 'American Jewish University, Los Angeles');
   INSERT INTO Colleges (state, name) VALUES ('CA', 'American Sports University, San Bernardino');
   INSERT INTO Colleges (state, name) VALUES ('CA', 'Anaheim University, Anaheim (Online)');
   INSERT INTO Colleges (state, name) VALUES ('CA', 'Antioch University, Culver City');
   -- etc...
   

5. Then just copy generated script and use it for your database