{"id":10433,"date":"2022-02-02T01:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/?p=10433"},"modified":"2022-02-25T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:33:59","slug":"4-common-data-migration-problems-and-how-to-resolve-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/4-common-data-migration-problems-and-how-to-resolve-them\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Common Data Migration Problems and How to Resolve Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Business data is an essential asset<\/a> regardless of the type of your business. You need to store customer information and employees’ data accurately. You can store your information on a computer, a database, or a dedicated data center. Regardless of the technology you’ve deployed for data storage, technology evolves and will soon become outdated. If you’re using legacy computers, software, or data centers, you may need to leverage modern technology for efficiency and security and migrate your data.<\/p>\n

There are different types of data migration: database migration, data center relocation, application migration, and business process migration. Occasionally, you should perform a data center audit to ensure that it’s at the optimum working capacity, or it still meets your evolving business needs. A checklist for data center audit<\/a> should look into security, quality control, cooling and power efficiency, operational performance, and energy efficiency, among other aspects. If your data center no longer guarantees this performance checklist, you\u2019ll have to establish a new data center and migrate your data to the latest one.<\/p>\n

However, beware that you may face some data migration problems. Here are some of the issues:<\/p>\n

1. Data Loss <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Some of your data might be lost in some transfer instances, especially when you’re transferring your data from legacy systems. Some legacy systems may not be secured with seamless transfer procedures for safe data migration. You should know that data loss is probably the highest challenge you might face during data migration. The financial implication that you suffer from data loss could be very high. If you lose your customer data, it’ll affect your marketing efforts, which, in return, leads to low sales.<\/p>\n

To secure your business from such a scenario, you can carry out a count reconciliation. The count reconciliation counts the number of records transferred to the target system from the legacy system to ensure that the number is the same.<\/p>\n

However, suppose during the data migration, you imposed some rules to restrict the transfer of certain records. In that case, you should check whether the transferred and untransferred record numbers match with the count in the legacy system.<\/p>\n

2. Data Corruption <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Corrupted data is different in both the legacy and target systems. Data in the target system may have some anomalies, redundancy, or duplications leading to integrity issues during the data migration. Data integrity issues and corruption<\/a> will affect business operations.<\/p>\n

\"\"It would help if you did data validation between the target and legacy system to solve this problem. There are different kinds of data validation:<\/p>\n