I have an application with a central DB on an NT file server. The client machines display subsets of the tables in grids. For example, a user may want to see that's on-hand for an inventory item. Performance is so-so.

My question is "How do I best select the subset of data?"

It seems that since the application is running on the client, even doing a "select... where partno = 'abc'" would still have to bring the whole index over the LAN. It seems like there would be an advantage to using SQLServer as the backend and using an ADO Recordset so that the LAN traffic would only contain the actual records I want, since the selection is done on the server and not the client.

Am I missing something here? Does anyone have any data comparing the 2 approaches?

TIA
Swen Nielsen
garlo@centurytel.net