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:
“This city is neither a jungle nor the moon.... In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“If I have been the source of pain, O God;
If to the weak I have refused my strength;
If, in rebellion, I have strayed away;
Forgive me, God.”
—Janet W. May (20th century)