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Matching counts can still hide failure
Suppose ten thousand C A P A records leave a legacy E Q M S and ten thousand arrive in the new system. The counts match, but attachments may link to the wrong parent, units may transform incorrectly, approval history may be incomplete, and signature meaning may disappear.
Combine totals with record-level evidence
Use approved mapping, control totals, field reconciliation, transformation checks, exception review, and risk-based sampling. Verify critical signatures, audit history, metadata, attachments, and record relationships. Retrieve representative open, closed, old, large, and unusual records using the roles that will operate and inspect the archive.
Preserve meaning, not only rows
The migration summary should explain the population, executions, totals, sampling basis, exceptions, deviations, retained limitations, and retrieval result. Record counts are useful, but they are one control. Successful migration means the required record remains complete, accurate, linked, accessible, and interpretable.