ODBC Standard

Movicon fully supports the Open Data Base Connectivity standard allowing data to be saved in standard format and real-time links to external databases.

The Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC) is the Microsoft standard which consents applications to organize data in database files in the specific format of any other application enabled to support this standard.

By using this technique you can knock down the data exchange barriers between different formats.

For example with the ODBC you can record data from the Historical Log or record with the Data Logger and Recipe tables data containing Movicon variables.

The data can be archived, by using the ODBC link, in the user's preferred format. If the user has a management system based on MsAccess™ or SQL Server, s/he can read and manipulate the data recorded by Movicon according to their own requirements.

Movicon carries out data recordings by using the ODBC standard. The ODBC link interprets the data to be recorded according to how it has been configured and carries out the recording in the corresponding format through the ODBC driver of the preferred database application. The file or files will therefore contain Movicon data, which will actually be recorded in the format requested by the ODBC system.

Movicon is independent from the data format used, seeing as the driver is property of the database and the operating system's ODBC manager being the means of putting the writing of data into effect.

ODBC is a Microsoft standard and the ODBC manager files (drivers) are property of the respective owner of each single Database application. For further information please refer to the ODBC online guide or to the current bibliography available from Microsoft or the makers of the database being used.