Calculations / Formatting with MySql or PHP ?

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tdnxxx444
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Calculations / Formatting with MySql or PHP ?

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When I first started programming, I kept hearing that when doing queries and needing to do calulcations and formatting the data, you should always let MySQL do the work instead of PHP. Is this true and why or why not?
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