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What can pandas do that SQL can't?

Pandas and SQL are cousins, at best.

Here's the 2,215 page user manual, to give you some idea of the power contained within:

They really serve two related but different purposes, I'm sure if you check it out you will be impressed.

pandas is higher-level; it's more similar to R. It does a bunch of modeling, statistics, and time series stuff.