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Anything that deals with the source data, such as aggregation, sorting, or partitioning, should be done with SQL.

Anything that deals with the formatting/display of the columns in the result set rows can be done in SQL, but doesn't have to be done in SQL. It's really a matter of convenience to do it in SQL, especially when dealing with multiple front-end languages, because it means that the formatting is done in one place.




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