Oh, I agree... the suggestion of sorting at the client means that you're sorting only the desired result set and no extra/unwanted data. Don't wanna "pop the pipe". 😀
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row. First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code: ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.