http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlservercompact/archive/2009/04/01/after-moving-the-database-from-one-platform-to-other-the-first-sqlceconnection-open-takes-more-time.aspxIf you move a SQLCE database from one platform to other, it's first SqlCeConnection.Open() takes more time and also increases the database file size. The Reason : F or an index on string type columns, SQLCE uses LCMapString API to get the normalized sorten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)