To implement server side processing you must simply write some code that returns a json object with the data structure explained in this page . That's it. I've don it in node.
Js and PHP but you na use whatever you want. You can use whatever you want to achieve this, remember that you must take into account pagination ( so a LIMIT clause to the query ), column ordering ( ORDER BY clause ) and filtering ( WHERE clause ) and you must understand how datatables passes data that you can use to build the query.
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