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 + Quick Start
   - [TiDB Quick Start Guide](QUICKSTART.md)
   - [Basic SQL Statements](try-tidb.md)
+  - [Bikeshare Example Database](bikeshare-example-database.md)
 + TiDB User Guide
   + TiDB Server Administration
     - [The TiDB Server](sql/tidb-server.md)
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+---
+title: Bikeshare Example Database
+summary: Install the Bikeshare example database.
+category: user guide
+---
+
+# Bikeshare Example Database
+
+Examples used in the TiDB manual use [System Data](https://www.capitalbikeshare.com/system-data) from 
+Capital Bikeshare, released under the [Capital Bikeshare Data License Agreement](https://www.capitalbikeshare.com/data-license-agreement).
+
+## Download all data files
+
+The system data is available [for download in .zip files](https://s3.amazonaws.com/capitalbikeshare-data/index.html) organized per year. Downloading and extracting all files requires approximately 3GB of disk space. To download all files for years 2010-2017 using a bash script:
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p bikeshare-data && cd bikeshare-data
+
+for YEAR in 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017; do
+ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/capitalbikeshare-data/${YEAR}-capitalbikeshare-tripdata.zip
+ unzip ${YEAR}-capitalbikeshare-tripdata.zip
+done;
+```
+
+## Load data into TiDB
+
+The system data can be imported into TiDB using the following schema:
+
+```sql
+CREATE DATABASE bikeshare;
+USE bikeshare;
+
+CREATE TABLE trips (
+ trip_id bigint NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY auto_increment,
+ duration integer not null,
+ start_date datetime,
+ end_date datetime,
+ start_station_number integer,
+ start_station varchar(255),
+ end_station_number integer,
+ end_station varchar(255),
+ bike_number varchar(255),
+ member_type varchar(255)
+);
+```
+
+You can import files individually using the example `LOAD DATA` command here, or import all files using the bash loop below:
+
+```sql
+LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '2017Q1-capitalbikeshare-tripdata.csv' INTO TABLE trips
+  FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"'
+  LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
+  IGNORE 1 LINES
+(duration, start_date, end_date, start_station_number, start_station, 
+end_station_number, end_station, bike_number, member_type);
+```
+
+### Import all files
+
+To import all `*.csv` files into TiDB in a bash loop:
+
+```bash
+for FILE in `ls *.csv`; do
+ echo "== $FILE =="
+ mysql bikeshare -e "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '${FILE}' INTO TABLE trips FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '\"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' IGNORE 1 LINES (duration, start_date, end_date, start_station_number, start_station, end_station_number, end_station, bike_number, member_type);"
+done;
+```