Data Migration in Practice — Assessment

Copy absolutely everything Deliberately bring active, useful data and leave dead records behind Bring nothing Bring only logos

The colour of the spreadsheet The quality of the data going in — cleaned and standardised first How fast you click The weather

Balances first, then everything else Reference data first (items, customers, vendors, locations), then dependent transactions and balances Random order Transactions only

They do not They are the starting point every future report builds on They set discounts They delete history

When the import finishes When it has been validated by reconciling totals and spot-checking records When the file uploads Never