Answer / girish kumar

2 TYPES OF SORTINGS

1.INTERNAL SORTING- cobol sorting
2. EXTERNAL SORTING.- jcl sorting.

WE MAINLY USE EXTERNAL SORTING, WHICH IS EASY AND FAST.

Answer / adarsha

internal sort.. because we can have data validations to the
max extent a programmer could do...

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