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Data Sources |
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Data Sources |
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Data sources are essentially structures of fields from which you can pull your data. Examples include: a database table, a query, a stored procedure result, XML data, CSV file, or data returned by a Web service call. You can also create your own custom data sources.
Data Architect supports the following types of data sources:
| • | Table data source - data from a database table/view (relational model) |
| • | SQL data source - data from a user defined SQL query |
| • | Hierarchical data source - data from an XML file or returned by a web service call |
| • | Procedures data sources - data from a database stored procedure |
| • | Custom data sources - data sources implemented by software developers |
| • | CSV data sources - data from an CSV (Comma Separated Values) file |
| • | Text file - data from a text file. |
Note that Data Architect works the same way with all data sources. You don't need to know which type of data source you are using to bind data between inputs and outputs.
Just connect the data sources with the Output as described in the Data Binding section.