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)

    Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)