Data Source

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

Famous quotes containing the words data and/or source:

    To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it—all my life.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
    Václav Havel (b. 1936)