nocodb/packages/noco-docs/docs/100.data-sources/010.data-source-overview.md

title	description	tags	keywords
Data sources overview	NocoDB Data-Source sync, access control & re-config	[Data Sources Overview]	[Data Sources overview Data Sources sync Data Sources access control Data Sources re-config]

Overview

NocoDB allows you to connect to external data sources and get a unified spreadsheet view of your data. Activities related to external data sources can be managed from Data Sources tab in Base dashboard.

Data Sources tab includes following functionalities

1. Connect/manage external data source
2. UI Access Control
3. Relations
4. Audit logs

:::info Currently only one external data source can be added per project. :::

Accessing Data Sources

1. Access Base context menu by clicking on the Base name in the left sidebar
2. Click on Data Sources tab

Learn more about working with Data sources in the following sections:

• Connect to a Data source

• Sync changes externally made to data source

• Edit external database configuration parameters

• Remove Data source

• Hide Data source

• Relations within a data source

• Audit logs

• UI Access Control