Importing completed

Posted on August 27, 2008. Filed under: Lessons Learned, importing data, milestone |

Whew. Lessons learned:

Leave that friggin’ first checkbox UNCHECKED. damn.
Do things in the smallest possible increments so that you don’t invest a lot of time only to find out it’s not working.
If possible, do all the manipulation on your end before you import. e.g.: I had “M/F” for gender in my db but MS wants 1/2. Instead of having to hand-code an import map, I just changed the data on my to make M=1 & F=2. Much easier.
Test with very small batches of data.
Remember to delete the records before attempting to re-import them.

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