This document discusses converting SQL queries from Microsoft Access to SQL Server for improved performance when queries are slow in Access or when moving to a .NET application front-end. It outlines reasons for translation like gaining speed by executing queries in seconds instead of minutes and enabling the move to .NET. The document also previews a demo database that will be used to illustrate lifting tables from Access to SQL Server and re-linking queries.

1. Converting SQL from Access
to SQL Server
Andrew Couch
ASC Associates
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2. Topics
• Reasons for translating SQL
• How to translate SQL
• Basics of translation
• Deeper problems with translation
• Further issues
• Final points
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3. Reasons for translating SQL
• Performance
– Your queries, reports, forms, excel spreadsheets are
slow to open.
– Complex sequences of query operations are slow, for
example when importing and batch processing large
amounts of data.
– Typical gains, a query taking 2 minutes improves to
execute in 2 seconds.
• Moving to .NET
– You are planning on moving from an Access front-end
to a .net application.
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