About me, arrr

Serge got interred into IBM's Toronto penal colony the moment he arrived from the University of Kaiserslautern/Germany (aka K-Town) a quarter century ago.

Having previously served a year's time at the Almaden Research Lab where he got into DB2 his life took a turn for the worse.
"OO what have they done to DB2?!" people asked in disbelief.
Over the years Serge has been guilty of many more crimes including: SQL Functions, generated columns, and what's come to be known as the "new SQL":
SELECT FROM INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE!
Punishment was swift!
He served time as DB2 for LUW's SQL Architect and was accused of being an STSM.
Not having learned a thing, and obviously becoming delusional, he likened himself to a modern day Robin Hood.
In a truly despicable act he had not shied from masquerading DB2 as Oracle.

Having sunk that low he launched raids across the the seven seas stealing from the rich buccaneer Larry E. to give to his then master Sam P. .
After years of doing that, and none the wiser, he decided to open a new page, and became a governor of risks.
But those who knew him could predict that compliance with just about anything would not be his thing.
Thus, before long, Serge jumped ship altogether and signed on with the new Force.com.
Some say he actually got shanghaied, but let's not split hairs....
As an unprincipled architect he tried PostgreSQL and learn how to share - plans, functions, variables - all from his cache - which was too small, always too small he laments.
Because his plans may be great, but they are too big - and they took too long.

In frustration, feeling it‘s all going to break into shards, he decided to help build a house, down by the lake, with bricks, from data. He‘s not picky, any data will do: structured, semi-structured, unstructured.
As he set data bricks onto data bricks he realized the instructions were faulty!
How can anyone follow these instructions?
And nothing is standard, it's giving him Hives, and Sparks are flying everywhere....
Now Serge rules his fellow Bricksters with an iron fist:
How bricks must be shaped, so they fit, so they can bear weight, and the house may last.
Years of Lego finally paying off!
Along the way he writes his memoirs, catalogs everything.
Perhaps, just perhaps, people can follow along at

Databricks SQL Language References.