Summary

Data migration is an exciting topic because regardless of whether you are migrating 1,000 records or 1,000,000 records, there are certain things that you must keep in mind for smooth data migration. Best practices related to the different phases of data migration that you learned will help you to conduct a successful migration without running into any major obstacles. The key thing is to spend time doing proper analysis before jumping into the execution phase of the data migration. That will save you a lot of headaches and wasted effort down the road.

You also learned about the standard Salesforce tools available to us for data migration along with their constraints. As mentioned earlier, for simple migrations, these may be sufficient, but for complex migrations, more sophisticated third-party tools are available that make the job much easier and smoother.

We concluded the chapter by discussing APIs that are provided by Salesforce. Although there are a lot of other APIs...