Please join me for my PASS Summit Pre-Con with Melissa Coates
I’m excited to announce that I’m joining forces with Melissa Coates (aka SQL Chick) to do a full-day PASS Summit...
2018-04-12
664 reads
Meagan Longoria
- Website: http://DataSavvy.me
Four Easy Things You Can Do Now To Make Your Power BI Reports More Accessible
Accessibility is often overlooked or ignored when it comes to reporting and data visualization. I think there are two reasons...
2018-03-09
1,043 reads
Power BI Screen Reader Accessibility
I recently wrote a post on the BlueGranite blog called Improving Screen Reader Accessibility in Power BI Reports. It contains...
2018-02-13 (first published: 2018-02-06)
2,018 reads
Ten Ways To Help Your BI Consultant Be Successful
I’ve been working in the field of business intelligence for over ten years, as a consultant for over five years....
2018-02-12 (first published: 2018-01-30)
2,758 reads
Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 5: Affordances
Affordances are a general design concept that comes from physical product design but can be applied to visual design. I...
2017-12-28
493 reads
Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 4: The Squint Test
Data visualization should be iterative. You should get a good initial draft put together and then check to make sure...
2017-12-22
783 reads
Design Concepts for Better Power BI Reports Part 3: Gestalt Principles
The Gestalt principles of visual perception describe how humans tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes to...
2017-12-18
708 reads
Design Concepts To Help You Create Better Power BI Reports
I have decided to write a series of blog posts about visual design concepts that can have a big impact...
2017-12-08 (first published: 2017-11-27)
2,410 reads
Biml for a Task Factory Dynamics CRM Source Component
I recently worked on a project where a client wanted to use Biml to create SSIS packages to stage data...
2017-12-05 (first published: 2017-11-22)
1,263 reads
Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports – Part 2: Preattentive Attributes
Preattentive attributes are visual properties that we notice without using conscious effort to do so. Preattentive processes take place within 200ms...
2017-11-30
848 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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