I tend to disagree. I find that data/UI tools that only sort the visible results, and not re-populate the paged view of the data, extremely counter-intuitive.

I tend to disagree. I find that data/UI tools that only sort the visible results, and not re-populate the paged view of the data, extremely counter-intuitive. Even old libraries like ExtJS supported easy re-querying the server upon the column sorting event - though it has to be said, many lazy implementers didn't use this feature.