Options for Basic Logging of Process Data to Databases and Text Files

What is data logging?

For many projects, the user simply needs to just log some data points to a database or CSV file for some basic reporting or trending purposes. Such applications typically don't have the large quantity of tags with frequent data changes that would generally require the data compression and sophistication of a full-blown historian.

For such basic logging needs, an OPC data logging solution meets the need and Software Toolbox has several options that work with TOP Server and other OPC Servers, depending on the specific requirements of the project to meet that need.

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ODBC data logging from OPC and non-OPC data sources with Cogent DataHub

The Cogent DataHub makes logging from various data sources easy - write data from the DataHub into any ODBC-compliant database, such as Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Express, MySQL, Oracle, and many more. You can use your existing tables, or create new ones fully customized to meet your needs.

And DataHub's wide variety of data interfaces allows logging far more than just OPC systems.