# Creating connections to data sources

Available in...

* Big Data Platform
* Cloud API Services Platform
* Cloud Big Data Platform
* Cloud Data Fabric
* Cloud Data Management Platform
* Data Fabric
* Data Management Platform
* Data Services Platform
* Qlik Talend Cloud Enterprise Edition
* Qlik Talend Cloud Premium Edition
* Real-Time Big Data Platform

The Profiling perspective of Talend Studio enables you to create connections to databases and to delimited files in order to profile data in these data sources.

### In this section

* [Connecting to a database](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2026-09/connecting-to-database)
* [Connecting to a file](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/studio-user-guide/8.0-R2026-09/connecting-to-file)