Question : Changing from Split Access DB in 2007 to SQL Server

This is not a technical question.  I have a database in Access 2007 that is being used by various employees throughout the office.  They all have a front-end database on their computers, and they all access the data/back-end which is housed on the server.  It has become quite slow for forms to load, and queries to run.  When I pull the data to a local machine and relink it, it's super fast, so I know that the speed issue comes into play when they are accessing it through the network.

So I have a 2 part question that I want to seek your advice on:

1) Would switching to SQL Server cause it to be faster (not considering any hardware considerations)?

2) Would switching to SQL Server cause a lot of rework on the Front End databases w/ respect to the code?  Or would it be as simple as linking the front end to the new tables in SQL Server?

Answer : Changing from Split Access DB in 2007 to SQL Server

rczuba said:
>>1) Would switching to SQL Server cause it to be faster (not considering any hardware considerations)?
>>
>>2) Would switching to SQL Server cause a lot of rework on the Front End databases w/ respect to the code?  
>>Or would it be as simple as linking the front end to the new tables in SQL Server?

The weaselly answer is, "it depends".  If you make the queries pass-throughs, and if you offload as much as
you can onto the SQL Server by means of pass-through queries and stored procedures, then you may get
better performance.

OTOH, if all you do is link the tables, and leave the queries as is, you may not see much if any performance gain.

Before you make that leap, are you certain that you have the right indexes in place, and that your design is
efficient?