====== Learning Tabulify - Step 2 - What's a Data Resource ? ======


===== Data Resources =====

The first job of a data processing platform such as ''Tabulify'' is to work with ''data''.

''Tabulify'' calls, locates and knows all ''data'' uniformly under the term ''Data Resource''.

  * A [[docs:resource:file|file]] is a ''data resource''
  * A [[docs:resource:directory|directory]] is a ''data resource''
  * A [[docs:resource:uri|url]] is a ''data resource''
  * A [[docs:resource:table|database table]] is a ''data resource''
  * A [[docs:resource:schema|database schema]] is a ''data resource''

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The ''Tabulify'' platform supports a lot of different ''data resources'' that you can discover in the [[docs:resource:resource|data resources page]].
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<note important>
The big strength and innovation of the ''Tabulify'' platform is that all data are uniformly named and manipulated as ''Data Resource''.

It means that you can copy a ''csv'' file into a database ''table'' and vice-versa with the same ''command'' as if you were copying a ''file'' to another ''directory''.
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===== Next =====

The ''data resources'' are stored in [[docs:system:system|systems]] that we can reach with a connection.

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[[3_connection|What is a connection ?]]
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