serial communication through com port, saving to database

[baftab]

hi
i am working on a project for my final year, and i need to send data to my pc through a microcontroller, serial port
i knw serial communication is easy with labview, what i want to knw is, does labview has a database to store all the data send to it?

for instance if i send bb8956cd through serial port, will labview be able to read it, compare it with an id already in its database and save it with a different name

for instance
bb8956cd         Cesc Fabregas         
cesc fabregas will already be in the database,

i hav never used labview before so i need to knw, is it possible to do this with it? or should i be looking for a different software?

[Dennis_Knutson]

LabVIEW doesn't come with a database - it's a programming language. It does have the ability to read/write to a variety of file types including databases such as Access, SQL Server, etc. You can also read/write text files or native Excel files. The database and Excel options are made easier with add-on toolkits but do not require them. There is LabSQL and there have been examples posted about using ADO functions if you wish to create your own routines.