title: Recommended database (such as MDB) type for vb.net?
body: <p>We're working on a new vb.net project which will need a database with many different tables and possibly thousands / hundreds of thousands of records in each table. Is there a better option than using .mdb files? The obvious benefit of using mdb is we can use Access to view / edit easily as well.</p>
  
  <p>We only have vb.net express so I don't think we can use SQL server (don't really want to anyways) but is there a better option than MDB for flat file databases?</p>