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Thai Data Migration Traps: VARCHAR, Idempotency, and OCR Vowels
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Thai Data Migration Traps: VARCHAR, Idempotency, and OCR Vowels

Lessons from importing and migrating hundreds of thousands of Thai data rows — undersized VARCHAR columns silently truncating synthetic keys into collisions, idempotency requiring DELETE before INSERT to stop totals reaching 200%, collation treating su001 and SU001 as equal while storing both, and Thai vowels corrupted by OCR that need a normalization map before insert

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9 min read·24 Jul