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)

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Biml for a Task Factory Dynamics CRM Source Component

by Meagan Longoria

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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)

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

by Meagan Longoria

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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

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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

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The Tabular Model Documenter is now a Power BI Template

by Meagan Longoria

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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

A New Word: on tenderhooks

on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...

Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses

By DataOnWheels

I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...

SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)

By Vinay Thakur

Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...

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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page

I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...

how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable

hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...

Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)

SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...

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Question of the Day

String Similarity I

On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL')

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