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Who wouldn’t love the chance to work for NASA! I wanted to work for NASA when I was growing up, loved space and everything that went with it. Then I got into IT and IT service management. But that love of space never went away. The idea of running the Apollo 13 mission using IT service management processes and principles has always resonated because of that.

Coming out of University I had no idea what career path I wanted to follow – the only thing I was sure of was that I did not want to pursue a career in my completed degree (Civil Engineering)! After a few fortunate events, I found myself in a position where I was working in a great training company with a huge range of courses on offer.

SQL Server 2016 introduces some significant new features. An interesting enhancement is System-Versioned Temporal Tables. Microsoft say these can be used to “Time Travel” a table without the need for a Flux Capacitor. These tables look just like any other tables but can be queried in a rather interesting way; you can query them to return how they looked at a previous date and time. The SELECT statement has a FOR clause that can be used as a simple “at this specific point in time” or it can be a more complex time range.

The latest cover story from Quest, the independent resource on education, resettlement and recruitment, is now available to read.  Dean Wood is a Quanta MOD resettlement delegate who undertook part of his training with us.  See how his training journey made a difference to his future career path.

This is part 1 of a series of blog posts around Office 365 and getting the most out of your licence. Cloud technology has taken off in a big way in the last few years and one thing we are asked for with increasing frequency at Quanta is workshop sessions for end users taking them through how to store documents in “the cloud” and collaborate with one another.