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 itall my life.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“Might not the beatific vision become a source of boredom, in the long run?”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)