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 To Help You Create Better Power BI Reports

by Meagan Longoria

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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

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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

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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

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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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Installing the Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 Provider for Both 64-bit and 32-bit Processing

by Meagan Longoria

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I recently got a new laptop and had to go through the ritual of reinstalling all my programs and drivers....

2017-07-20

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Updating a SharePoint List Item With Flow When You Don’t Have The ID

by Meagan Longoria

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I recently worked on a project that used Flow to update a SharePoint list each time an item was updated...

2017-07-17

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Blogs

The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection

I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...

10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives

By Meagan Longoria

Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...

The Book of Redgate: Evidence

We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...

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A Challenge of Our Knowledge

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The memory toll of VARCHAR(MAX) in SQL Server

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Transaction Log Truncation

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Transaction Log Truncation

In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?

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