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)
“It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.”
—Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)