通常情况下对于一个全新的MySQL服务器，没有任何数据供我们测试和使用。对此，MySQL为我们提供了一些样本数据库，我们可以基于这些数据库作基本的操作以及压力测试等等。本文描述的是安装sakila数据库。该数据库需要安装在MySQL 5.0以上的版本。以下是其描述。

1、下载种子数据库
下载位置：http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html

2、安装种子数据库sakila
[root@localhost ~]# unzip sakila-db.zip
Archive:  sakila-db.zip
   creating: sakila-db/
  inflating: sakila-db/sakila-schema.sql 
  inflating: sakila-db/sakila.mwb   
  inflating: sakila-db/sakila-data.sql

The sakila-schema.sql file contains all the CREATE statements required to create the structure of the Sakila database including tables, views, stored procedures, and triggers.

 
The sakila-data.sql file contains the INSERT statements required to populate the structure created by the sakila-schema.sql file, along with definitions for triggers that must be created after the initial data load.

The sakila.mwb file is a MySQL Workbench data model that you can open within MySQL Workbench to examine the database structure. For more information, see MySQL Workbench.

[root@localhost ~]# ls
anaconda-ks.cfg  Desktop  install.log  install.log.syslog  sakila-db  sakila-db.zip
[root@localhost ~]# cd sakila-db
[root@localhost sakila-db]# ls
sakila-data.sql  sakila.mwb  sakila-schema.sql

[root@localhost sakila-db]# mysql -uroot -p <sakila-schema.sql
Enter password:

[root@localhost sakila-db]# mysql -uroot -p <sakila-data.sql
Enter password:

3、验证安装结果
[root@localhost sakila-db]# mysql

root@localhost[(none)]> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| performance_schema |
| sakila             |
| scottdb            |
| tempdb             |
| test               |
+--------------------+
7 rows in set (0.01 sec)

root@localhost[(none)]> use sakila

Database changed

root@localhost[sakila]> show tables;
+----------------------------+
| Tables_in_sakila           |
+----------------------------+
| actor                      |
| actor_info                 |
| address                    |
| category                   |
| city                       |
| country                    |
| customer                   |
| customer_list              |
| film                       |
| film_actor                 |
| film_category              |
| film_list                  |
| film_text                  |
| inventory                  |
| language                   |
| nicer_but_slower_film_list |
| payment                    |
| rental                     |
| sales_by_film_category     |
| sales_by_store             |
| staff                      |
| staff_list                 |
| store                      |
+----------------------------+
23 rows in set (0.00 sec)

root@localhost[sakila]> select count(*) from customer;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|      599 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.01 sec)

更多参考:  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/sakila/en/sakila-installation.html 

安装MySQL样本数据库Sakila