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)

    Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that’s precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows!... eternal fountain of our feelings!—’tis here I trace thee—and this is thy divinity which stirs within me ...—all comes from thee, great—great SENSORIUM of the world!
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)