Comments for Data Migration Tips

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Comments for https://www.endpointdev.com/blog/2023/02/migration-tips-and-tricks/
by Josh Tolley

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[jonjensen]

Great article, Josh! Many of the principles you mention have saved me over and over.

A few other things on my data migration checklist:

• As early in the project as possible, give us a copy of all the data as it is now, complete, unmodified, in its messy actual state in the standard export format for the database it lives in.
• During a multi-month migration project give us a fresh database export about once every week so we can re-run our automation scripts against the latest data and catch new things that will break it. (As they often do.)
• Data migration scripts and mappings should be visible to everyone involved in the project, including managers and subject matter experts, as well as developers and database experts. People who can't understand everything about the programming may still spot things that could be wrong and should be discussed.