Salesforce.com Data Migration Best Practices
- Import Legacy Ids
- Create Compound Keys for Companies
- Create and Map Only Relevant Data Fields
- Replace Large Pick Lists With Look-ups
- Perform a Limited Test Migration
- Create a Old/New Field Pairing
- Normalize Old Data
- Create a Cutoff Date for Old History Records
- Detailed project plan with the order of activities and validation steps for Go-Live.
- Include business users in the final validation and Sign-off
- Check the data storage and attachment limits
- Define rules for one-time data conversion
- Check for Standard and Custom Indexed Fields for query speed up
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