I’m Speaking at Virtual PASS Summit 2020
PASS Summit has gone virtual this year, but that isn’t keeping PASS from delivering a good lineup of speakers and activities. I’m excited to be presenting a pre-con and...
2020-08-06
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Meagan Longoria
- Website: http://DataSavvy.me
Refreshing a Power BI Dataset in Azure Data Factory
I recently needed to ensure that a Power BI imported dataset would be refreshed after populating data in my data mart. I was already using Azure Data Factory to...
2020-07-21 (first published: 2020-07-09)
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Data Visualization, Context, and Domain Expertise
I recently posted a graph to twitter and asked people to explain it. Let’s look at the graph. The graph is from Fitbit. It shows the number of steps...
2020-06-18 (first published: 2020-06-04)
424 reads
Power BI Data Viz Makeover: From Drab to Fab
On July 11 at 3pm MDT, Rob Farley and I will be hosting a webinar on report design in Power BI. We will take a report that does not...
2020-06-18
14 reads
An Updated Version of the Power BI Enterprise Deployment Whitepaper is Available
A new version of the Microsoft whitepaper “Planning a Power BI Enterprise Deployment” is now available. Once again, Melissa Coates (b|t) and Chris Webb (b|t) are the authors. I...
2020-06-16 (first published: 2020-05-28)
308 reads
Using Logic Apps in a Data Factory Execution Framework – Part 1
Data Factory allows parameterization in many parts of our solutions. We can parameterize things such as connection information in linked services as well as blob storage containers and files...
2020-05-22 (first published: 2020-05-07)
561 reads
Power Up: Exploring the Power BI Ecosystem, May 27-28
Next week I’m speaking at at the Dynamic Communities Power Up event titled “Exploring the Power BI Ecosystem“. It takes place on May 27 & 28, 2020. This exciting...
2020-05-21
23 reads
Check Out My MBAS Presentation on Power BI Report Accessibility
I had the privilege of working with Tessa Hurr (PM on the Power BI team) on a presentation for the 2020 Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) about five features...
2020-05-14
21 reads
Stress Cases and Data Visualization
Times are stressful right now. There is an ongoing pandemic affecting people’s health and livelihoods. Schedules are messed up, kids are home. People who aren’t used to working remotely...
2020-04-02 (first published: 2020-03-26)
419 reads
I Presented with Live Captioning and Sign Language Interpreters
I had the pleasure of presenting a full-day pre-conference session on the Friday before SQLSaturday Austin-BI last weekend. I could spend paragraphs telling you how enjoyable and friendly and...
2020-02-13
25 reads
Blogs
Understanding Fabric Ontology
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
When growing companies outgrow Excel
By ChrisJenkins
There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your...
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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