Developing Data Migrations and Integrations with Salesforce: Patterns and Best Practices

© David Masri 2019

David MasriDeveloping Data Migrations and Integrations with Salesforcehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4209-4_7

7. Putting It All Together: A Sample Data Migration

David Masri¹ 

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Brooklyn, NY, USA

 

Great! Let’s do it! In this chapter I put you in my shoes and walk you step-by-step through the data migration component of a typical project. We will follow the Basic Upsert-No Delete pattern (discussed briefly in Chapter 5), which is the standard migration pattern and can be used for just about any Salesforce data migration.

As we go through each of the following steps, note how consistently we follow the best practices described in Chapter 6. More important, however, note how following these best practices reduces your workload ...