A MailRules Datasource allows you to establish certain details of an Outbound Rule (Recipients, message body and file attachments) from an external source. The external source is either a properly formatted text file, a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or a Microsoft Access database table or query.

a factory for Connection objects

a factory for connections to a physical data source

a named connection to a database

a standard JDBC administrative object for handling connections to a database

A handle to a source of data, such as a database. Datasources are registered with the NAS and then retrieved programmatically in order to establish connections and interact with the datasource. A datasource definition specifies how to connect to the source of data.

An Oracle Data Browser graphical representation of the tables and views that hold data in a database. See also alias, query view, synonym, table, view.