Chapter 8: Best Practices for General Data Migration
Data migration is a common task that Salesforce admins, developers, and architects are asked to complete. Understanding best practices on how best to approach data migration will ensure that costly mistakes are avoided, and the data migration is complete and accurate.
In this chapter, we will discuss some of the tools available to us for data migration and their advantages and disadvantages. Most of the time, for large and complex data migrations, a third-party tool is used as the standard tools provided by Salesforce may be sufficient but not very efficient in terms of effort.
In the later part of the chapter, we will touch base on the different APIs that Salesforce provides in the context of data migration and integration. You will learn about the general architecture of the APIs as well as ideal use cases for the APIs. Since this book is about data and use cases for large volumes of data are becoming more common, I will...
