True, we can try to point you in the right direction.

Look up the following functions/controls in VB help

DIR (to get file names)
CommonDialog (to create an "Open" dialog box, not sure if you need this)
Open (to open the file)
input (to read the file to memory
Arrays (to hold the file details)
Instr() (to search the files for ... whatever)
Split() (to break a file into lines (you may not need this)
RDO / DAO / ADO (your choice od database methods)
SQL language syntax (select, update, insert, delete) for reading and writing to the DB

They dumped you in the deep end, but if they've giving you some time (a month or two) and you keep posting here when you get stuck, then you'll finish fine and learn heaps at the same time, it's not really that hard