Designing reports using BIRT Studio : Getting started : Creating a report : Selecting a data source
 
Selecting a data source
After you select a template, you select a data source from a list of available sources. Depending on your system configuration, the data source can be one of the following:
*A data set included in the selected template
*An information object
*A data object
These data sources contain all the information to connect to a data repository, such as a database, and retrieve a specific set of data.