Milestones
MS-002
The Record Survived Its First Migration
Nothing lost, one thing renumbered
Milestone
Reached
Every entry moved to a new structure. One number changed in the process, and the change was recorded rather than quietly absorbed.
What Moved
Every entry, from a structure with one table per category to a single generic pair of tables.
What Was Lost
Nothing. The count before and after matched exactly, and every URL that had ever been public still resolved.
What Changed
One entry number, because two entries in different old tables had claimed the same one. The collision had been invisible while they lived in separate tables.
The renumbering is recorded in the entry it affected. It is the only permanent scar from the migration and it is deliberately visible.
“A migration that leaves no trace is a migration nobody can audit.”
Closing note
The milestone is not that the migration worked. It is that the one thing it broke is written down where the next person will find it.
Milestone
- Entries moved
- All of them.
- Lost
- None.
- URLs broken
- None.
- Renumbered
- One, visibly.