Data source
A data source is simply the source of the data. It can be a file, a particular database on a DBMS, or even a live data feed. The data might be located on the same computer as the program, or on another computer somewhere on a network.
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
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