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.

Considerations for Using Layout Images in Power BI

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Using layout images in Power BI has become a popular design trend. When I say layout images, I’m referring to...

2018-08-07 (first published: 2018-07-28)

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Power BI Report Accessibility Checklist

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

In many cases, some small changes can go a long way in making your Power BI reports more accessible for...

2018-06-07

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Choosing a Color Palette For Your Power BI Report

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Color is a powerful attribute in data visualization. In a good visualization, it can focus attention and enhance meaning and...

2018-06-05 (first published: 2018-05-27)

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Thoughts and Lessons Learned From A Power BI Embedded POC

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

I worked on a Power BI embedded POC where a report with an in-memory Power BI model as the dataset...

2018-05-02 (first published: 2018-04-25)

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Please join me for my PASS Summit Pre-Con with Melissa Coates

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

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

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Four Easy Things You Can Do Now To Make Your Power BI Reports More Accessible

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Accessibility is often overlooked or ignored when it comes to reporting and data visualization. I think there are two reasons...

2018-03-09

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Power BI Screen Reader Accessibility

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

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)

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Ten Ways To Help Your BI Consultant Be Successful

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

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)

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Design Concepts For Better Power BI Reports Part 5: Affordances

by Meagan Longoria

Data Savvy

Affordances are a general design concept that comes from physical product design but can be applied to visual design. I...

2017-12-28

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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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Blogs

Limiting Results with TEXTSIZE in SQL Server: #SQLNewBlogger

There is a SET command in SQL Server that changes how much data is...

Secret management using Pulumi ESC SDK and Azure Key Vault

By Ige Adetokunbo Temitayo

This is a submission for the Pulumi Deploy and Document Challenge: Shhh, It’s a Secret!What...

The Book of Redgate–Being Reasonable

As a part of the Book of Redgate, we have a series of (red,...

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