Author: Meagan Longoria

Control Flow Restartability in Azure Data Factory

I presented at SQL Saturday Pittshburgh this past week about populating Your data warehouse with a metadata-driven, pattern-based approach. One of the benefits I mentioned is that it’s easy to modify this pattern for restartability. For instance, let’s say I am loading data from 30 tables and 5 files into the staging area of my… Continue reading Control Flow Restartability in Azure Data Factory

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Making Legend Order Match Segment Order in a Power BI Stacked Column Chart

A reader of one of my previous posts pointed out that the legend order and segment order in my core visual stacked column chart did not match. I had to ask the Power BI team about this, and they explain that there is a way to make them match, but it’s a bit unintuitive. The… Continue reading Making Legend Order Match Segment Order in a Power BI Stacked Column Chart

Copying Content from One Databricks Unity Catalog Catalog to Another

I had a couple of clients who were moving content from development catalogs to production catalogs for the first time. They wanted to copy the schema and data from tables, views, and volumes. So I wrote a python notebook to handle this task. It creates the objects in the new catalog and then changes the… Continue reading Copying Content from One Databricks Unity Catalog Catalog to Another

Comparing Power BI Core Visual and Deneb Stacked Column Chart

One of the new features in the August Power BI Desktop release is the updated legends that are styled to more accurately reflect the per-series formatting on the visual. This made me curious how close I could get to the clean look of a Deneb (vega-lite) stacked bar chart. I used open source data from… Continue reading Comparing Power BI Core Visual and Deneb Stacked Column Chart