>I tried to check out the access to vb which you talked about, but it is in German, and my German is not very good.

Mine isn't too!!!

>What would you estimate as far as time frame to become proficient in VB6 as far as database programming?

«Proficient» is a big world. There are chances that if you are a good Access programmer, that you can be «proficient» in less than a month since you already use VBA-code and you already use databases.

And afterall, some people are proficient in one context (general database application for example) and not in another (TAPI application for example).