A data source is any of the following types of sources for (mostly) digitized data:
- a database
- in the Java software platform, datasource is a special name for the connection set up to a database from a server
- a computer file
- a data stream
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“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in itall my life.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
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