Application Vs Database

• Database: fetching data, arranging data, enforcing integrity
   
• Application: presentation, string manipulation, complex tasks
   
• Depends on your developers
   
• Ideally, everything should be in the database when possible
   
• SQL has severe limitations
   
• Procedural languages get around most of them, but not all

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