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I default to relying on SQL. I've found that helps ensure calculations have a single source of truth, which helps maintenance and reliable sharing throughout your app, or across multiple apps.

SQL also offers powerful aggregate functions to assist. Much simpler to use something like AVG() or SUM() in a SQL query than having to worry about deriving the same calcs in application code.



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