Stack Overflow publishes a data dump with all user-contributed content, and it’s a fun set of data to use for demos. I took the 2024-April data dump, and imported it into a Microsoft SQL Server database.
It’s an 31GB torrent (magnet) that expands to a ~202GB database. I used Microsoft SQL Server 2016, so you can attach this to anything 2016 or newer. If that’s too big, no worries – for smaller versions and past versions, check out my How to Download the Stack Overflow Database page.
Some quick facts about this latest version:
Badges: 51,289,973 rows; 4.7GB Comments: