Meagan Longoria

Meagan Longoria is a consultant with Denny Cherry & Associates in Denver, CO where she shares her expertise in Microsoft BI and data warehousing through solution envisioning, architecture design, solution development, training, and blogging. She is a speaker at user groups and conferences across the country.

Website: http://DataSavvy.me

Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 4: The Squint Test

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Data visualization should be iterative. You should get a good initial draft put together and then check to make sure...

2017-12-22

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Design Concepts for Better Power BI Reports Part 3: Gestalt Principles

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

The Gestalt principles of visual perception describe how humans tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes to...

2017-12-18

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Design Concepts To Help You Create Better Power BI Reports

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

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)

2,409 reads

Biml for a Task Factory Dynamics CRM Source Component

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

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)

1,257 reads

Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports – Part 2: Preattentive Attributes

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Preattentive attributes are visual properties that we notice without using conscious effort to do so. Preattentive processes take place within 200ms...

2017-11-30

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Data Visualization Panel at PASS Summit

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Next week is PASS Summit 2017, and I’m excited to be a part of it. One of the sessions in...

2017-10-28

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Let Her Finish: Voices from the Data Platform

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

This year I had the pleasure of contributing a chapter to a book along with some very special and talented...

2017-10-19

615 reads

The Tabular Model Documenter is now a Power BI Template

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

A while back I created the Tabular Model Documenter Power BI model that can connect to your SSAS Tabular or...

2017-09-26 (first published: 2017-09-19)

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My Thoughts After Completing a Power BI Report Server POC

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Last month I worked on a proof of concept testing Power BI Report Server for self-service BI. The client determined...

2017-09-25 (first published: 2017-09-18)

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You Can Now Put Values On Rows In Power BI

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Back in January 2016, I wrote a blog post explaining a DAX workaround that allows you to put measures on...

2017-08-29 (first published: 2017-08-11)

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Blogs

Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...

PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI

I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...

Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!

By Klaus Aschenbrenner

Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...

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Forums

SQL Server 2025 Query Performance Tuning: Troubleshoot and Optimize Query Performance

Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Query Performance...

Is it uncommon for Dev's to have a data model of the source data

By Coffee_&_SQL

This is a generic question. To the moderators, I wasn't sure where to place...

ROLLUP to calculate Month total for all Categories

Good Afternoon, I have built a table with four columns: Period(Month), Category, Numerator, Denominator....

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Question of the Day

Creating JSON I

On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:

SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver')
GO

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