The ODBC Interface to VTS History provides a means to create and view live reports from a VTS application, using programs such as Crystal Reports, Access or Excel. One of its main advantages is that the computer querying the application need not have VTS installed. Managers, engineers, operators etc. can view up-to-date reports from any location without needing to install VTS on the remote computer.
Through this interface, you can treat a VTS application as if it were a database, with each logged tag within it representing a table of timestamps and values. Once the connection is configured, your reporting program can send SQL queries to VTS to retrieve tag values that are being logged. (Tags that are not being logged will have no stored history to query.)