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

Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 2

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

I showed in my previous post how we generated the datasets for our Azure Data Factory pipelines. In this post, I’ll...

2017-03-21 (first published: 2017-03-10)

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Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 1

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Apologies for the overly acronym-laden title as I was trying to keep it concise but descriptive. And we all know...

2017-03-03

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Please Lend Me Your Vote for Documentation of TMSCHEMA DMVs

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

I spent a good bit of time looking for the definitions/descriptions of the TMSCHEMA DMVs that allow us to view...

2016-11-07

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Process Compatibility Level 1200 SSAS Tabular Model from SSIS 2014

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

A client wanted to upgrade their SSAS model to SSAS 2016 to take advantage of some of the features of...

2016-10-21 (first published: 2016-10-14)

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Documenting your Tabular or Power BI Model

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

If you were used to documenting your SSAS model using the MDSchema rowsets, you might have noticed that some of them...

2016-10-05

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BYO Time Zone Conversion With SSAS DMVs

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

This is just a quick note (since I apparently forgot and was puzzled for a moment) that the MDSCHEMA_CUBES DMV...

2016-09-21

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DAX Date Dimension and Fun with Date Math

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

I was working on a SSAS Tabular 2016 solution for a project for which I had no data (an empty...

2016-09-03

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Create a Date Dimension in Azure SQL Data Warehouse

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Most data warehouses and data marts require a date dimension or calendar table. Those of us that have been building...

2016-08-11 (first published: 2016-08-06)

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PolyBase Is A Picky Eater – Remove Carriage Returns Before Ingesting Text

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Update: As Gerhard points out in the comments, switching to ORC files solves this issue nicely. It’s not human readable,...

2016-08-09 (first published: 2016-08-01)

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Using Context To Traverse Hierarchies In DAX

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

My friend and coworker Melissa Coates (aka @sqlchick) messaged me the other day to see if I could help with a...

2016-07-28

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Blogs

Understanding Fabric Ontology

What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...

QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger

Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...

When growing companies outgrow Excel

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There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your...

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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployment Level 3 – Rehearsing Changesets Across Environments

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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters

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Limit the Blast Radius

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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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