title: large database file (mdb) takes time to load in vb.net so need alternative
body: <p>I have 4k records in access database. And one of the field value contains ~100 lines each 
  so and one other field has ~25 lines. So total database size reaches ~30MB and it takes lot of time 15-20 seconds to load the database in vb.net using odbc <a href="http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/net/nets12p5.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/net/nets12p5.html</a></p>
  
  <p>and updating of any other small fields also takes time due to database being large</p>
  
  <p>So as an alternative I used rtf file (txt files were not preserving all the newline characters). So these file are around 5-10kb only. But for 4k records and 2 fields I have now 8k files. And copying of these 8k rtf files is taking huge time for 5MB transfer it takes an hour or so.</p>
  
  <p>So is there any other alternative for storage of this data. So that it will be portable and easily loaded/accessed/updated from vb.net?</p>